What’s Become of Adobe FrameMaker?

Up until a couple of years ago, most of my customers
used Adobe FrameMaker to create their technical
documentation. The most common package we
sold was Adobe FrameMaker + QuadralayWebWorks,
from templates through indexing. The most common
conversion we did was MS Word to Adobe FrameMaker.
In fact, I’d say that a good 90% of our technical
documentation business was FrameMaker-based.

I am sad to report that I have seen a precipitous drop in
FrameMaker-based projects over the past few years.
I’d estimate that anywhere from 30-40% of our Frame Maker
business is gone. Instead, more and more customers are
asking us to create content using XML editors, such as
Arbortext and XMetaL. In addition to XML editors, many
of our customers are now using wikis for content creation,
such as Confluence or MediaWiki.