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Sean

Although I have been educated, chastened and encouraged by your many excellent posts I cannot agree with the following: " FrameMaker is good for the next 5 years and beyond" as programs do not exist in a vacuum, if you cannot run the programs that are current (whether it be Photoshop 10, Ilustrator 15, or your favourite Office suite) you will abandon Framemaker. All programs have a short life because of a consistent trend for the bigger, faster (and sometimes even better). Often such changes being brought about through corporate goals and needs, rather than individuals desire to 'keep up with the Jones'.

As you know InDesign is accomplished for type, has acquired basic book management tools and will I am sure continue to increase its scope for the longer document and I hope that this will continue into version 3 and 4, both probably to be seen within your 5 year time line. It wouldn't hurt for there to one program for text from Adobe, rather than three. Particularly if modular architecture could avoid bloat/redundancy through the use of plug-ins.

Steve