Re: Astoria

Subject: Re: Astoria
From: "Bob Doyle" <bobdoyle -at- skybuilders -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L List" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:28 -0400

Hi Barbara,

In my survey of DITA Editors and CMS for STC Intercom Magazine, I estimated
Astoria Software (On Demand) as $12K and up.

I believe typical corporate installations are many times this figure.

See http://www.ditanews.com/tools/STC_Intercom.pdf

Cheers.

Bob

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Barbara Vega <BarbaraV -at- libertyims -dot- com>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Is Astoria software very expensive? Does anyone know?
>
> I don't want to call or write at this juncture because I will be forever
> hounded by a salesperson and I am just window-shopping
>
> I just wanted a BALLPARK figure - nothing even remotely specific.
>
> Or does it depend on co size etc
>
> Our co is well below 50 employees and docs dept is 3 people - other
> depts would be roughly 10 people sharing content in total
>
> Thanks
>
> BV
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References:
seeking translation vendors: From: Melissa Clark
Seeking translation vendors?: From: Geoff Hart
Astoria: From: Barbara Vega

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