Re: What's happening with Interleaf?

[Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>]

Doug,

Fuhgeddaboudit. You can't buy it anymore. The company, mismanaged for 
years, constantly being reorganized, constantly changing their marketing 
model, finally succumbed. Broadvision, which bought the company, does 
not want to do business with you. Their current model, as I understand 
it, is to lease (not sell) the software, at something like $1,500 a seat 
per year, and only to large organizations. Single-user licenses are 
essentially unobtainable, although you are welcome to try.

The consensus seems to be that, if you want that kind of power, you 
should look at the most recent version of Corel Ventura Publisher. If 
you want to be in a mainstream user community, though, with portable 
skills, you should probably take a step down and learn FrameMaker.

Now, having said all that, if you just happen to find a copy of 
Interleaf to load on your home machine and fire it up once in a while to 
do a diagram or a table or something, and just send the EPS into your 
work account, well, who's gonna know ;-)

Dick

Doug -dot- Brode -at- valiantmachine -dot- com wrote: