Comments on: Quark To Launch New Mystery Product

by: Don't be crazy

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:54:37 +0000

Server 7 was just an update to DDS3.5.2, already soap complient, QuarkXPress Server\DDS was around years before InDesign Server and is a far more capable product, this has been the case with DDs and Server. InDesign is just a bad copy using bad concepts

by: LS De Monte

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:30:52 +0000

No kidding! The price of software has gone down significantly (thank goodness) which helps quite a bit. I actually got the QXP 7 upgrade for $79 I couldn’t believe it! Anyhow, hopefully this next wave of products will follow suit in terms of pricing.

… and now for that mystery product.

by: M Jenius

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:10:59 +0000

You’re absolutely right, Quark would not be in this situation if they’ve always been this motivated to improve. And obviously they are very motivated right now. It didn’t really hit me, but yeah, we are the ultimate winners. I mean, right now I can purchase the whole Creative Suite and Quark, for the same amount I used to spend just on Quark alone. I doubt that Quark will overtake Adobe, but then they don’t need to. If they can provide the necessary solutions to stop more Quark users from jumping ship, they’ll be fine. They have to stop the bleeding first, then reasses their strategy. I don’t think at this point they should worry about winning back those they’ve lost already, but rather take care of their current users. I mean take real good care of them. Hopefully they learned their lesson, and who knows maybe someday Adobe will get too comfortable and make the same mistakes.

by: LS De Monte

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:04:40 +0000

PS. These wars usually lead to innovative new products. It’s nice to be able to pick and choose the tools you use in your toolbox. One way or another, it should be interesting.

by: LS De Monte

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:02:31 +0000

Maybe so, but at this stage in the game they’re the trailblazers of the industry. Whatever they do now is still at least 6 months ahead of what the main competition will put out. IMO they’re definitely taking the right steps. They’re not sitting on their asses hoping for the best. They’re actually putting some effort in to reclaiming some of their lost marketshare and possibly inducing new users to their product(s). Truthfully, I’m glad that someone is putting up a fight against Adobe. Especially since they’re the ones resisting the jump to the intel based machines. I’m not sure what kind of tif Adobe and Apple have got with each other but it ultimately affects us, the end user. So, hats off to Quark for moving forward.

by: somone

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:06:13 +0000

I dont think anyone should put their money against Pariah’s becuase he will win the bet :)…

by: M Jenius

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:07:49 +0000

OK OK, so it’s a PS competitor or a web editor. Either way they’ll be doing what they’ve been doing for almost the last decade….. playing catch-up.

by: Pariah S. Burke

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:18:51 +0000

Quark today released QuarkXPress Server 7—a SOAP-driven server as I predicted above.

This isn\’t the mystery application to be announced on the 26th, however. This is another new product release.

Quark\’s burning up the newswires this month.

by: Pariah S. Burke

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:28:37 +0000

While a new version of CopyDesk would certainly be in Quark\’s better interests, the language chosen to hype the 26 October announcement strongly suggests a brand new product.

I hold firm to my belief that it will be a multi-media application capable of publishing X/HTML and Flash with familiar XPress-like tools and user interface. Further, if this new mystery product doesn\’t do PDF forms yet, I expect one of the other \”upcoming products\” will.

Anyone interested in a friendly, non-monetary wager about it? ;-)

by: woz

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:37:16 +0000

Let me guess… Quark buys Freeway?

by: LS

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:32:19 +0000

All the speculated products mentioned above sound great, and I truly hope that it is a PS competitor or HTML/XML editor… but, realistically I think that its the newest version of CopyDesk which would be compatible with QXP 7… Thats just my opinion.