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- From: psrc@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:25:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov7.184250.4613@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu
- (Richard Warner) writes:
- >>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)
-
- In article <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
- (whose name, I believe, is Bryan Curnutt) writes:
- >Not on a Sun. Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.
-
- No, but WordPerfect(R) sells WP for Suns (and other UNIX(R)-based
- systems). They now sell WP for UNIX 5.1, which is about as WYSIWYG as
- WP for [MS] Windows. WP is *not* FrameMaker(R); in particular, it has
- no drawing tools. (Unless some were added for WP/UNIX 5.1.)
-
- (Richard Warner:)
- >>management, FrameMaker is it. And if you plan for max use and get
- >>network floating licenses the price is considerably less than $2500/node.
-
- (Bryan Curnutt:)
- >... and is instead $2500/simultaneous user.
-
- Well, not quite. As I understand it, you only need a license to start
- using FrameMaker (if that), to save documents, and to print documents.
- With a little discipline, several simultaneous users can get by with
- one license. I think our site has five licenses for thirty users.
- (Caveat: we still have light usage.)
-
- Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories/EasyLink Services,
- att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm
- I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.
-
- FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technologies.
- UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories.
- WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corp.
-