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This is hillarious.

Adobe just announced (okay, so they only announced it in India) they were hiring a bunch of new developers for the FrameMaker product. This might mean a new breath of life for FrameMaker, which is admittedly pretty old in software years.

Adobe doesn't own the DTP market. For long technical documents, MS Word does. And, Ventura is sort of a player.

InDesign is not about long technical documents. Neither is Quark.

If FrameMaker development were to stop tomorrow, then the product would not cease to function the day after. No, excepting OS changes--which you can control by not upgrading--today's FrameMaker is good for the next 5 years and beyond, if you like; there is plenty of time to plan a migration to whatever comes next.

Lee Robins said Adobe Engineering is looking into OSX functionality. With the product moved to India, I'm not sure that carries the weight it once did, but I'm inclined to believe it still.

A new release of FrameMaker happens every two years. There is no reason to believe that will not continue to happen. Although, moving the product overseas has probably delayed this some.

The bottom line is that Adobe is always quiet about these things. But, despite the rumors of FrameMaker's demise, 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 were dutifully released. Indications are a FrameMaker 8 will be coming, with OSX, multiple undo, and other things as possible features.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet on at least a FrameMaker 8 and then, two years later, an 8.5 or 9 . . ..

Cheers,

Sean