But Adobe bought them out.

Buy out or merger and acquisition, sometimes, is the best way for
acquiring channels, customers, technologies (used for products) instead
of developing and building everything from ground up.

I wonder, sometimes, what would happen to Surface series and Windows 8
phone if MS purchased and used another brand name, such HTC or Nokia or
Blackberry, and marked it with their brand name instead of MS's brand
name, like Google purchased Moto Mobility for one of reasons.

But to use M&A, top management has to remove their egos and recognizes
that "it doesn't have to be our name." M&A are very common in consumer
product categories for using "brand portfolios" to cover different
channels, customers, and product categories. The goal is to win and
have the largest market share across different segments when one brand
name is impossible to achieve.

Well, that's irrelevant to Windows 8.

On 8/5/2013 09:11, Paul wrote:
xfile wrote:
On 8/5/2013 07:44, Paul wrote:
xfile wrote:
FrameMaker and FrameBuilder are examples of good tools for
collaborative document writing.

Is it something like PageMaker?

I remember many technical writers used PageMaker, but I haven't been
involved in technical writing for a long time.


It doesn't have the graphical finesse of PageMaker.
It would be mainly considered a document editor.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._screencap.png



For example, if you needed a gradient in a background
of something you've drawn, I would expect PageMaker
to be able to do it, while FrameMaker can't.

Paul

Thanks. So it's another Adobe product.

They have so many products. But thanks.

It didn't start life as an Adobe product.

We bought out first copy, when it was an independent company.

But Adobe bought them out.

Paul