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Sean, 

What does Ventura do better for you, which FrameMaker doesn't? I'm curious. Back in the Windows days, before Adobe purchased FrameMaker, wasn't Ventura a Pagemaker competitor? Was it Ventura Publisher? 

Generally what I want from today's software is a better way to train myself to use them more effectively. I find it increasingly difficult to reuse my learning. So I'm not working smarter, or faster, just using new stuff more often. Like a fancy fountain pen makes my writing more legible. Either it's the rate of new versions, or my needs are not keeping up with the market. 

I have more interest in moving content and less interest is aethetics. FrameMaker appears to be moving in the content direction. 

So now, I'm keen on the single source idea and "template-driven workflows". 

My apologies. My mind is not really on wordprocessing or publishing. I've been stumbling over my feet the last few days with a Paradox table, the Acrobat 5 Toolkit's Perl CGI, Perl ODBC, and Perl. By the way, I use FrameMaker to author my forms in books. Modular publishing. 

On the other hand, if the market for FrameMaker-type products is not that large, is the need for all such products decreasing? I can't tell. 

It may as simple as lowering your requirements to maintain a lower average pay rate. 

Sigh. But it does make it easier to manage your labor costs. After all, can't do nothing about your capital expenditure outlays.Is FrameMaker a niche market tool, or is the market FrameMaker serves a niche? 

Is FrameMaker like a 10 year old high end 35mm single lens reflex camera? Does Linux box at WalMart equate to the disposable 35mm cardboard camera? Next time I buy Windows, will the PC be disposable? 

So what's better in the Ventura product? 

By the way, software is like a working environemnt. I have enjoyed working in FrameMaker, Acrobat, GoLive, WordPerfect, Excel, Quattro Pro, Lotus 123, GIF Animator, Paradox, Crystal Reports and SQL Server. There are others I dare not mention. 

Aloha and muchos mahalos.