Joseph: I understand this, but I'm sorry to see you go.
Please include me on your mailing list of the explanations. Nadine >________________________________ > From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" <syed.hos...@aeris.net> >To: Joseph Lorenzini <jalo...@gmail.com>; FrameMaker Forum ><framers@lists.frameusers.com> >Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 2:22:59 PM >Subject: RE: So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker >to Flare > > > >Hi, Joseph. > >You are not the only one who is abandoning FrameMaker … if you look at my >posts in the past months, I have done the same although I have been using it >since 1988 off and on. I am still on the list for old times sake, though. J > >Please do send me your detailed reasons in an off-list e-mail – would like to >know your decision trigger! For me, it was the (a) recent over-pricing for >some version upgrades that should have been done as free bug fixes, (b) the >Adobe trend (albeit not yet announced for FrameMaker) to SAAS as the only >licensing mechanism, and (c) their abandonment of small users (i.e., number of >licenses) from their multi-year update licensing system. > >Today, all my new documents are no longer in FrameMaker. I am only using it >for maintaining and changing old documents, and if the change is large enough, >I move it off FrameMaker. That takes a couple of days – even for the large >documents – and then I am fine for the future! In time, all my old documents >will be moved from FrameMaker. > >However, I have not chosen Flare as my platform, although it looks quite >capable. Switching to it is expensive (of course, if they made me a $199 >one-time offer to switch from FrameMaker to Flare, I would do it! J) > >For now, for my needs (which may not apply to everybody), a combination of >Word 2013 for short documents (less than 10 to 20 pages), and LaTex (for large >multi-hundred page specifications) is proving quite workable. Not perfect, and >not as flexible as FrameMaker, but the costly “upgrades” of FrameMaker is not >acceptable, and the trend to equally costly SAAS is a deal-breaker. > >BTW, LaTeX in particular allows me to achieve *complete* look-and-feel >consistency in my specifications – formatting is separate from text entry – >and I value that highly. It was my reason for selecting FrameMaker over Word >about 12 years ago for my current company. > >Regards, and good luck! > >Z > >From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com >[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Lorenzini >Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 10:13 AM >To: FrameMaker Forum; tcs-us...@googlegroups.com >Subject: So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare > >Hi all, > >I have used FrameMaker for over 5 years. I have used it to produce thousands >of pages of documentation. And I honestly thought that FM was a great >tool...for a time. Plus, the community was super helpful. > >So its with some regret that I am telling you that I am leaving this community >and the TCS suite. I am adopting Flare as a replacement. Please note I am no >evangelist of Flare nor do I think that there's One Right Tool. FrameMaker can >be a great solution for some and if works for you then great. The reasons why >I made this choice were driven by a specific business and use case > >There are many reasons for this but that would cause this post to grow quite >large and I didn't want to flood this community with a gigantic post about why >I am not using its tool anymore. > >That said, my experience of why and how i migrated may be of interest to >others in this forum. If you'd like a detailed explanation and are curious to >learn more, I would be happy to share those details with you offline. Feel >free to email me. > >Sincerely, >Joseph Lorenzini _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
