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HUGE price rise, format conversions, and HTML Transit
Subject:HUGE price rise, format conversions, and HTML Transit From:Sandra Charker <scharker -at- connectives -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:27:33 +1100
I've always thought of HTML Transit as a Word to HTML converter, and
haven't been particularly interested. However, we've been looking at the
new release, and it seems to be quite a lot more than that. So far on our
evaluation it's done a pretty good job with FrameMaker books to HTML,
though it doesn't handle as many of Frame's capabilities as WebWorks does.
It also claims to handle... well you can see for yourselves at
http://www.infoaccess.com/
At the website you'll also see that the price will rise from $US495 to
$US5,000 - yep, that's five HUNDRED to five THOUSAND dollars - on 1 January
2000. So if anyone has been thinking that it might be worth looking at some
time, I'd suggest you look now. There are comparably mind-boggling price
rises for other products, AND for support.
I'm a free-lance, and on the strength of the evaluations we've been doing
at my present contract I'm planning to buy HTML Transit for myself. It
looks like a seriously useful tool. However, 500 US dollars will knock a
noticeable hole in my Christmas budget, so I'd appreciate comments and
gotchas from anyone who's used it.
