*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** It's been another big week for SGML. The following stories have appeared since Monday: InformationWeek, "A New Standard of Freedom: SGML promises to ease cross-platform development," 9 March 1993, Anthony Vecchione. Sidebar: "How SGML Bridges Format Differences," Ira Sager. InfoWorld, "What is SGML?," 29 March 1993, Susan Sirrine. CALS Journal, "CALS and SGML: Beyond Compliance and Conversion," Spring 1993, Christopher Locke, Avalanche. CALS Journal, "The Market for SGML Emerges -- Finally," Spring 1993, David Henry Goodstein, Interconsult, Inc. The Goodstein article contains the following quote: "The outlook is for very rapid and profitable growth, with over 750,000 primary users (i.e., experts) in operation supporting millions of users and a run rate of over $550 million annual sales reached by late 1995." Reprints of the two listed CALS Journal articles are available in hardcopy; send mail here (to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com) including your ground mail address. There are several other articles in this number of CALS Journal that discuss SGML. If you'd like a copy of the entire issue, try: Jeffrey D. Hill, Editor CALS Journal 14407 Big Basin Way Saratoga, CA 95070-6008 (408) 867-8601 Another source of information that may be useful: "Over the next five years computer users will be invited to abandon their worst habits: They will no longer have to work at every computer task as if it had no need to share data with all their other computer tasks, and they will no longer have to act as if the computer is simply a replacement for paper. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is the technical advance enabling this revolution... SGML is a success because it is a language for building the architectures required to accommodate a variety of different applications. It will continue to attract governments, corporations and industry groups because it is an approved, published international standard whose timing is right. Communicating, open systems are now offered by every computer vendor and such links are useless without the exchange of content that SGML enables." The SGML Handbook Dr. Charles Goldfarb Oxford University Press, 1990 from the foreword by Yuri Rubinsky, President, SoftQuad Inc. (Yuri can be reached at yuri@sq.com) SoftQuad has two items that may be helpful: 1) The SGML Primer, a 36-page booklet that usually sells for $10, but *may* be available to journalists for the asking, and 2) "The SGML Year in Review -- 1992," the text of a speech Yuri gave at SGML '92 last October. Be sure to include your ground mail address if you request these. Finally, the investment banking firm of Wessels, Arnold & Henderson has produced a very interesting 17-page report about SGML called "A Paradigm Shift in the Documentation Industry: >From Format-Driven to Content-Driven," by Peter D. Schleider. Here's how to get hold of it: Wessels, Arnold & Henderson 901 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55402 (612) 373-6100 ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************