[seul-edu] [Fwd: Are Axene products still supported?]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Here's a message I sent to Axene, and their reply, about their
products.  I'll admit that Adobe's announcement of FrameMaker for Linux
spurred me to contact Axene (FrameMaker is very nice, but too pricy for
me and I suspect for most schools).  You can find out more about Axene's
programs at <http://www.axene.com>.

Antoine BUAT wrote:
> 
> dloss@suscom.net wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've been aware of Axene for a few years.  I stopped advising people to look at XAllWrite, XQuad and Xclamation a little while ago when I could no longer get your website to work.
> >
> > I see that your site is now back.  However, the newest entry in your "What's New" section is nearly two years old.  Are these products still being actively marketed and supported?  There's a need in the Linux world for a desktop publishing package in particular, but I'm loathe to recommend your products to anyone till I know that there will be on-going support available.
> 
> Sorry for all this trouble and thank you for your support.
> We are currently in the process to update our website.
> The product comes to life again!
> We are going to annouce some great news for the year 2000:
>         -Open Source availabilty
>         -Free license for non-commercial end-user
> 

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