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Word and Framemaker battles not withstanding, shame on your company for not
enforcing daily/nightly server backups! The not-so-old adage "it's not if
your server will go down, it's when" becomes truer as the days whiz by. Any
company with a product complicated enough to require hundreds of pages of
documentation, should have proper contingency planning to cover that kind of
loss. Your TW staff should be pushing for proper safeguards to prevent
losing three months worth of work.
MTC
Connie Giordano
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Brautigam [mailto:curtisb -at- nurserysupplies -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:24 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Tools, Word/Weird
[snip]
The last straw was when one of those Microsoft macro viruses wiped out all
of our MS files on the server, and the last complete backup of the files on
the server was three months old. Then was when we discovered FrameMaker.
Once we got beyond the learning curve, it was
so much better to use.
[snip]
