X-Ray Magazine:
Rumor has it: Quark is abandoning the desktop. Rubbish!

The real story is that the future of content-driven, media- independent publishing comes to life with Quark’s new enterprise solutions that are founded on Quark technology (yes, QuarkXPress), partnerships, and open standards.

Read online:
xraymag.com/articles...5n4_quark_dps_1.html

I love that little trick and I can’t find this type of thing anywhere in InDesign…anyone know if it’s do-able?

Thanks.

BTW - I also like InDesign better but am forced to use both programs.

I just wish QuarkXPress did perform better—I haven’t used it for awhile but its output always seemed inferior to InDesign (as almaink says).

And InDesign Server, which is the core of the successfull Cacidi Extreme Sever, look here www.cacidi.com

After all how can a company named after a mud brick outshine a company named for a building block of the Universe that was formed nanoseconds after the Big Bang? It’s like if you had a company named “turd” and were trying to outdo a company named “god”. “Turd” company can make a big stink but in the end people will come back to the “god” company for the Truth….ie InDesign is PageMaker all over again.

Sounds like Quark has some good things coming in the next year or two. I’d be curious to see how QuarkXPress evolves however, even if it remains a desktop application I’m not sure it will stay the same now that Quark is pursuing more enterprise-level initiatives. Nothing operates in a vacuum, and at the very least I could see QuarkXPress working in tandem with DPS in some way. We’ll just have to see.

I was invited to attend the Quark VIP launch of DPS at the AIM/On Demand show in Boston this week. Ray was very explicit that substantial development dollars will be allocated to their core technology “QXP” and that QXP will remain as their flagship product and sometime this year we may see another major release of QXP.
I also spoke with Quark’s CIO (Jim Haggarty), who is leading the DPS initiative and he emphatically stated the QXP desktop technologies as well as support of other content creation tools and open standards are essential to a complete Dynamic Publishing Solution.

FYI, the VIP invite-only event was packed and ran for a couple of hours, with a tremendous buzz and interaction in the room from Customers, Analysts, and Software Vendors.

I believe we will once again have two formidable players in the Desktop Publishing arena, with Quark now branching out as complete Enterprise player as well.

The one thing I was hoping to see in the press release that I didn’t was an explicit “QuarkXPress will remain a desktop publishing solution,” though it was implied in the comment about meeting the “needs of individual designers and large organizations alike.”

Schiavone “QuarkXPress is and always will be the foundation of our product portfolio and we will continue to invest in it to meet the needs of individual designers and large organizations alike.”

Did some one forget to tell Quark to stop XPress?

http://dynamicpublishing.quark.com/dps/

quark.com/about/pres...idx=1194&alap=no

rockymountainnews.co...publishing-software/

Also, they changed their website.

http://www.quark.com

Is this the big announcement you were expecting? Don’t see them announcing the departure from the desktop market as you expected.

quarkvsindesign.com/...es-long-term-vision/

I do not think they will make it and whatever you think of Quark or InDesign I would not go near QuarkXPress 8.0 with a barge pole. It will be buggy and other than a new UI not all that different. that’s my guess.

Who in their right mind would take a comment made like that about Quark seriously when it’s made at a InDesign user group meeting! unless you gain from it scaring users?

So anyway where was the big press release? the big announcement? CREDIBILITY!!! LOST?

LoL, that’s a Quark owned website. But believe me I have no wish for Quark to get out of the business. Competition is good. Right AMD?

These are the real inside sources.

Most of the Universities in the UK offer only design courses in Quark 7. This includes Sheffield Hallam University, Leicester College, University of Bedfordshire, University of Lincoln, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, London College of Communications. If you are learning Journalism in the UK, you are more likely to use Quark.

It seems different countries have their preferences of Quark or InDesign. But in UK, Quark 7 is quite popular among Journalism and Media.

This is just another bullish and bumptious ploy by Adobe to get people to switch over to their products.

no credable sources, no actuall information, just adobe hopes and dreams….

This is not the old Quark. Their have been radical and difficult changes within Quark, as the management team has rebuilt the organization and focused the business on a very well thought out strategy. In the next few weeks,I am certain we will hear some of thes strategies.

I also heard they had a very successful international sales meeting last week in Denver. The sales teams were presented with a glimpse of future product releases (which included a standing ovation for the QXP team).

Sounds like a lot going on from a company on the rebound.

We’ve been hearing that from Quark since like QuarkXpress 4. I think your definition of “exciting” is drastically different from mine.

I know for a fact, Quark has some tremendous and exciting plans for QXP and have developed a long term multi-year road map, which will astound the industry. Do you think they would invest in quarterly maintenance releases of their flagship product if they were aborting the business? They are building towards an exciting announcement.

Once again, your site is built on rumors, yet never a retraction when you are wrong, and this time you are going to take it on the ear. Your friend from Adobe, Jim Maivald, is an idiot to state such rumors publicly. I am certain he will be eating his words in the next few weeks, when Quark makes their announcements.

I know Ray Schiavone very well, he is extremely competitive, and loves trash talk from the competition. I am sure he will use it to his advantage.

I am looking forward to your retraction or who you will blame for these ridiculous rumors or as history has recorded, you will ignore and continue to blast Quark.

Just curious: Does Adobe have a server based solution or is that in development?

As Paul pointed out, SoftCare’s K2 and K4 are scalable server-based solutions built around InDesign and InCopy. Also, Adobe itself sells InDesign Server, which is essentially a copy of InDesign itself that can perform tasks automatically or semi-automatically via scripts and even Web interfaces.

By and large, QuarkXPress and InDesign currently offer all the same types of products. Adobe lets partners take solutions further where as Quark tends to do more of the same development in-house.

You can find out a lot more about server-based solutions from both companies by doing a search here on Quark VS InDesign.com for “server”. Or, just click here.

Also I’d say Quark had more expertise in Desktop and really lacked basic stuff in enterprise so they need all the luck they can get if they’re going thru with this!!!