The problem is not really just with Adobe Acrobat, it's also with the rest of their product line. They have a great history of shooting themselves in the foot with their own market. I have seen many, many content publishing companies go through all sorts of grief with Adobe over software versions, cpu and platform issues, and product interoperability. If it was just a Sun thing, well it might be more special, but it's really not. Most of the trouble I've seen has been on Mac's and Windows machines because they're what there is the most of out there. For a long time, FrameMaker on sparc was like the best of breed in word processing. People liked it because it was reliable and on Suns it scaled, and was professional quality in it's publishing capacity.
I wish Adobe would get their act together but waiting on that isn't a good or productive idea. The idea that they will manage to keep their act together on Linux where they havn't necessarily done it in the past with every other OS is sort of silly. Software development is often pretty fragile, and there's no question Adobe's flailing in a lot of respects with platform coherence. The sad thing about it is that they haven't identified and chosen appropriate standards to follow that would solve this problem. The market has reacted to it by making the 'save as pdf' option to create portability, instead of using Adobe software for the same purpose. I'd like to see Adobe do better with their support of applications in general on Solaris, but I'd also like to see it happen across the board with every major commercial unix, (including Linux, which is quite the commercial unix itself these days) as well as MacOS, & XP/Vista. I can't quite figure out why they flail around with this but they do. It's not like any of the vendors out there can't offer them reference platforms and support for them to do it with. It's not rocket science to do it either. Which points at managerial shortcomings pretty clearly, and there's little to be done about that. Tim Scanlon This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
