Re: (OFF) What Ever Happened To OpenDoc?
Re: (OFF) What Ever Happened To OpenDoc?
- Subject: Re: (OFF) What Ever Happened To OpenDoc?
- From: King Chung Huang <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:19:18 -0600
Ironically enough, Microsoft Office for the Macintosh is also one of the few
apps that support Publish and Subscribe.
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:43:44 -0300
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From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: (OFF) What Ever Happened To OpenDoc?
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At 2:30 AM +0200 27/07/01, Brennan Young wrote:
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> AppleWorks still has this 'publish/subscribe' feature which is similar to
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> Microsoft's OLE. If you use this extensively with stationery documents you
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> can get some of the benefits. I am certain most
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> ClarisWorks/Appleworks users have no idea how powerful this feature
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> is. The weird nomenclature does not help.
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AppleWorks isn't the only thing out there the supports
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Publish/Subscribe. I'm a hard core FrameMaker user and it supports
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P/S, right up to the current version. And it's a really nice way to
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manage graphics in your documents if you can get the players on side
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and educated to use it. I tried to sell the idea of using it in a
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large corporate client's shop and it didn't fly. They were not
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disciplined enough. But if you use it as it was designed, and play by
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the rules, it's a very cool technology. Can save you a lot of manual
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effort.
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