Re: Rumor about FrameMaker - is it true?

Subject: Re: Rumor about FrameMaker - is it true?
From: "Phillip St. James" <saint0 -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:56:07 -0800


A privately held Texas software company with operations in California buying and successfully running a Silicon Valley mainstay has been tried and you tell me... Does this really sound doable? Texas and Cali would be very strange bedfellows indeed... I don't see the "culture" element meshing, but I could be wrong.

After the Enron and White House-blessed Texas energy broker rip-off of California with multi-billion dollar bills still unpaid and in protracted, super expensive litigation, there are a lot of undiscovered skeletons in closets and a world of antipathy to overcome...

Quadralay and Adobe for the emancipation of FrameMaker - not likely. Austin is as progressive an area as there is in Texas, too.

But there's hope. One of our California Shell oil refineries, due to be closed because it was "small" has been bought and will continue to produce:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/11/BUGQ9AO59V1.DTL&type=business

-phillip
Palo Alto

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Dugas" <dugas -at- intalio -dot- com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: Rumor about Framemaker - is it true?



It would be nice if Quadralay picked it (FrameMaker) up, since they seem to have a vested
interest in its continuation.



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