Thanks for the note and updated link, Klaus. Around 1995, I worked for a Silicon Valley Sun Computer and FrameMaker reseller, who presented an "introducing Adobe Acrobat" sales event to its A-list high-tech enterprise customers. Charles Gesche, one of the Adobe founders, was the keynote speaker.
Yes, the Acrobat suite of products then was expensive, but our large customers saw value in being able to automate the conversion of their mountains of legacy documents, created in a variety of formats, into PDF, and gain some order and control over their existing documentation chaos. I asked our CEO if he thought that after the expected initial sales and the rush to process all the legacy materials, if there would be much of a continuing Acrobat market. "Once a customer invests in a large-capacity software conversion system that doesn't wear out, why buy more?" He told me to "ask Chuck." Chuck said, "I have no idea. It's early." Over time, it seems that Adobe did figure it out On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Klaus Daube <[email protected]> wrote: [snipped] Hm, the older I grow the more I'm interested in history ... > > Klaus > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
