So has Adobe missed the boat? See: http://www.contentrules.com/blog/whats-become-of-framemaker/
With rants like in the "FrameMaker 10 Review" (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4002052#4002052), perpetual questions & issues about creating PDFs, crumbs of improvement for unstructured FM, ignoring it as a publishing tool, lack of current documentation, ignoring/deprecating hundreds of wishlist and "needs fixing" items accumulated over the 25 years, and so on, one really has to wonder where this is all heading.
Empires/civilizations rise and fall. So do software must haves - the dusty remnants of CP/M, VisiCalc, 1-2-3, dBase, WordPerfect, etc. lie forgotten on shelves, in boxes.
So is the Adobe crew standing around the dock, inwardly gazing and admiring the new coat of battleship grey of its vessel after a refit? Are the passengers seeing past the new paint job and yet still finding the same lumpy matresses in the staterooms, the same courses served up in the galleys (but perhaps on newer dishes), the same old routines in the shows, the same... ?
Comments, thoughts?