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Subject:Re: Has WebWorks fallen off the map? From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
Carolyn Dismuke wrote:
> But of the few applicants that have API experience,
> NONE have WebWorks experience.
One contractor's perspective:
Yes it has fallen off the map. Expensive proprietary
Windows-based tools are out of favor right now.
In my market I perceived a definite lack of interest in those
kinds of tools. So I made a business decision to focus on
open-source tools instead. But my clients, contacts, and friends
in my personal network know that if I need WWP, I'll buy it and
be using it by the end of the week.
> I thought FrameMaker was the tech writer's tool of choice
If you hang out here, I can see why you'd think that. Maybe
that's why more and more API doc work seems to be getting done
by developers these days instead of tech writers.
Disclosure: I do own FM5.5 and FM7 and have done all the
tutorials, just in case :-)
Mike O.
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