When you purchase a car, you know that a new model year is going to be available somewhere around the October timeframe. If you purchase a car in September, that's the chance you take. Sometimes, as in Bill's case, you don't have a choice (when blonde bimbo totalled my car, I had to buy a car right then!).
Framemaker 8 was released in July. The official announcement by Adobe was July 23. That was quite a long time between the FM release and the TCS release. As I said before, Adobe is bound by SEC rules and regulations regarding the announcement of releases. If you don't like the way they are required to do business, I'd suggest finding another tool or a vendor who is not a publicly traded company. They cannot announce a release during certain periods, and they (appear) to be following SEC guidelines correctly. ...sue On 11/13/07, Bill Swallow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the case of the car, it was an on-lot availability thing. I knew it > was coming, but I couldn't get one when I needed one (was a "need to > purchase NOW, my old car is falling apart" kind of thing). > > In the case of Adobe, they often don't announce things until a month > prior to their actual (not target) ship date. This has been their > model with FrameMaker for as long as I can remember them owning it. > > I'd be miffed as well if I couldn't get a "recent buyer" upgrade price > for the TCS. FM8 didn't come out terribly long before the TCS, and we > knew (well, I knew) that something was brewing since Adobe didn't > release the FM FDK as they usually do when a new version FM ships. > They were holding their cards close for the RH integration in the > suite before folks like Quadralay and others could create a truly FM > 8-compatible version of their competing products. > > I'd say that this alone would be something to watch in the future. If > the FDK for the new version of FM is held up, my bet is on a pending > upgrade to either the TCS or to RH specifically. If this is important > to you, hold off on upgrading FM until you know what's what. > > On Nov 12, 2007 9:12 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you start reading automobile magazines 6-12 months before you intend > to buy a car, you will usually know if another car is coming > > along to replace the current model well in advance, and often you'll see > ads that say "coming to your...dealer on Oct 1st." In > > fact, your... dealer will be holding "end of year clearance" sales on > the old model long before the new one is set to arrive. > > > > Sales promotions are another thing. It's entirely possible to miss a > sale (rebates, zero-percent financing, etc.) because you > > bought a few weeks too early. But you usually get a sporting chance at > avoiding that by keeping an eye on the industry sales > > figures for the current month to help you guess whether the salespeople > will be more or less hungry next month. Something you can't > > do for SW if sales figures are not publicly disclosed. > > > > If I paid $899 for one SW product and then discovered that if I'd waited > a month or two I could have had a V8, er more SW, for $99 > > more, I'd be miffed. One way to reduce the chances of it happening is > to never buy a new SW product terribly soon after it comes > > out. With Adobe and MS products, I usually don't touch them until I see > at least the second service release come out. After my > > experience with an ongoing bug in Acrobat 7, I decided to only buy new > Adobe SW during that period at the end of the product's > > lifecycle when they say "buy now and get a free upgrade to our upcoming > new version." > > -- > Bill Swallow > HATT List Owner > WWP-Users List Owner > Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter > STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager > http://techcommdood.blogspot.com > > ______________________________________________ > > Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. > New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help > technology and PDF output. 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