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I saw this product demoed at the Digitext conference this summer and thought
it was pretty cool. By its nature, the demo doesn't adverstise the
inevitable bugs and oddities in a software product, but what it did seemed
pretty powerful. One thing I didn't really enquire about was the stability
and proprietariness (I doubt that's a word) of their data format and
back-end. Particularly for a small company, this seems important. What if
they all of a sudden go belly-up and there's not an easy way to convert to
another tool/format?
We've considered trying AuthorIt on a trial basis, but we haven't actually
had time to do more than download the demo. Hope that helps. Thanks. DB.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cathy De Rubeis [mailto:de_rubeis -at- hotmail -dot- com]
> Sent: 20 July 2001 14:45
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: AuthorIT input
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I searched the archives for comments/input on the AuthorIT
> product and found
> a few good reviews but strangely, no negative product
> comments.
<snip>
>
> So, I am looking for the following:
>
> 1.input from those who have thought of or have actually
> switched to this
> product
> 2.whether you are a lone writer or are part of a team of
> technical writers
> and . . .
> 3.did this impact your choice to move or not to move to AuthorIT
> 4.how many documents/page count does your department produce
>
> Thanks,
> Cathy
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