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FM --> HTML and Version Management: Summary and Thanks
Subject:FM --> HTML and Version Management: Summary and Thanks From:hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au To:Framers -at- FrameUsers -dot- com, framers -at- omsys -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, austechwriter -at- egroups -dot- com Date:Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:50:45 +1100
All:
Thanks for all the responses to my pleas for advice about
version-management applications and FM to HTML applications. The responses
were too numerous and too detailed to summarise, but fortunately most
respondents also copied to the lists. The short answers are:
VERSION CONTROL
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is perfectly adequate for small document
filesets, but unfortunately it does not support the ODMA -- even though
Word 2000 does! Hmmmm. Canterbury and Documentum are very expensive, need
FM+SGML and a dedicated administrator, and are a lot of work to implement.
Their power and complexity defeats usability.
FM TO HTML
Webworks Publisher and mif2go were neck-and-neck as tools of choice. I
have played with HTML Transit and it seems very good but the per seat costs
are prohibitive. With our current foreign-exchange rate, the $US5000
translates to $AU10,000. So it looks like mif2go and WWP need further
investigation.
--
Hedley Finger
Technical Communications/Technical communicator and FrameMaker mentor
MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au>
P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia
<mailto:hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au>
Tel. +61 3 9894 0945
Mob. +61 412 461 558
