<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:53 PM, John Griffin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">BTW, could you not find something in Linux that would fill the gap so you could at least stick with PPC machines?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Not for FrameMaker. When Adobe bought it they ported it Windows and Mac OS (from SunOS). When Apple released OS X, Adobe never moved it from OS 9 -> OS X. So the only two options to run it on modern hardware are Windows or a Sun SPARCstation with Solaris.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Coders and engineers will eventually go to linux on PPC laptops because we use them to write PowerPC machine code. Workstations will be going to Windows in our company. Windows has gotten cheaper to support than Mac OS because Apple keeps throwing a new curve ball that breaks backwards compatibility every 4 or 5 years. And every time they do, they loose more software vendors.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We simply can't afford Apple's whims any more, and Mac OS will be phased out in two years.</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>