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Subject:Re: Rumor about FrameMaker - is it true? From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:10:06 -0600
Phillip,
What would "Quadralay buying Frame" have to do with "...successfully
running a Silicon Valley mainstay"?
First, I doubt if Adobe would sell Frame--I expect, instead, they will
fold its features into InDesign.
However, Quadralay is far too small to buy Adobe itself.
Too, Frame is no longer actively developed in California, but in India.
Please, let's keep the chauvanism of state vs. state from the
discussion and stay with a little logic.
Further, the politics you cite is completely wrong. There was no
"White House blessing" involved. Instead, if anything, it was more a
laissez faire approach by the Feds. Of course, it was made possible by
a rather stupid energy "deregulation" by your wizards in
Sacramento...but I digress. Oh, yes...the Enron charlatans were aided
much more by the last Democratic Administration than by the current
Republican one.
Still, these are extremely different than the topic of software
development and management. ..and, as I said, the suggestion that
Quadralay "should" buy Frame has no basis in reality that I am aware
of.
Besides, for *anyone* to attempt to buy the product would be somewhat
foolish given Adobe's stated aim of including many long-doc features
in successive versions of InDesign.
David
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:56:07 -0800, Phillip St. James
<saint0 -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
>
> A privately held Texas software company with operations in California buying
> and successfully running a Silicon Valley mainstay has been tried and you
> tell me... Does this really sound doable? Texas and Cali would be very
> strange bedfellows indeed... I don't see the "culture" element meshing, but
> I could be wrong.
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