_ 0an___~_r_8_,_I~ ________________ -' .......... .r _____________ Tb_e __ ~~ __ ld~R=~~~n~o~n~ . ~Pu~b~li~' s~hm~' g Systems Volume 20, Number 3 The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems People -- SEYBOLD Interleaf 5: ' Q'U,tMii'Ri B __ ... PI'OIhoctIoa om- Chuck Fizer has and marketing H ·u A Complete Overhaul of TPS 428 E. Baltimore Pike, PO 80, 644 . e WI repon to Ar' left his position as Rosenfeld, who retains the role f Ie . Media, Peruuylvania 19063, USA vice president, cor· Phone: (215) 565-2480 Tela: 4991493 dent and CEO of Scitcx E 0 presl- porate developmem, . urope. Pax: 565..f659, 565·3261 SCltcx Europe also announ d at Penta Systems. · ce two Sccphcn E. Edwards, u;"" o ther appomtments. Gerard F . John w. Seybold, Sp«MI Projta> BtliJ. There was no offi· h ". Ourruer This article presmts a1l averview of Interleaf 's announcement af its Peter E. i>y1on, AJ.Mt, u;"" [[] as Jomed as Vice president of sales H cial explanation for neIV Interleaf 5 tech>wlogy Octaber 3 at the Seybald Camputer Man. E. Walter, Jr., AJ.Mt, BtliJ", comes from Agfa Compugraphic, . e the deparrurc after nine months in the Pubitshmg Canference. Althaug h it looks much like TPS Interleaf David Gcnla-, JIJoJd.ou £tIit. where h ~ was European sales and mar­ Molly W. Joe&, TuJm;u,J u;"" position, but we ~Iieve it had to do 5 is a radical departure for the CQ1tlpa1ly. RP..ther tha1l :..a.ely add kenng director. Walter Wacs has been Mama E. MorriJon, Offiu ~ with differences of opinion among top features ta TPS, Interleaf has takC1l it apart and constructed a sct LiIIW1 Maahcws, CUaJaJ;.,. ~tr promoted to the position of vice presi­ afp rogrammable '>wdules that may be tied together in a variay af MaJincU D. Biddle, ~ A.oimau managers. No replacemem has been de~t , product development, within IVays and may be accessed by users or ather vemiors. A central I'mcha Edwards, M"""6tr named. Nor is it clear if the directions s,.r"" SCltex Europe. He previollSly was direc­ Donna E. Hihn, ~ Anr_ in which Chuck was planning to take CQ1tlpa1lC1lt af all af the modules is the ability ta tailor any aspect af John ButIcr, ~Anr_IP.-M.a A...". tor of product marketing. Both the company will be altered. the system--evm ta pragram a document ta do certain thi,ws ,,-c-t 0ftIa Fourruer and Waes will repon to rvtthaut operator mtervC1ltion, IVhat Interleaf calls "active dom­ 6922 WiIdIifc Road, PO 80, 578 Bemitz. ments<' . In "",!-itim'! several key changes ta the underiyi'w Malibu, CA 90265, USA Charlie rmg, cofounder of Atex, has compasttwn erWlne rvtll m abie b,terleaf ta bring its safhvare inta Phone: (213) 457-5850 Fax: 457-4704 been elected to the board of directors All~ AlIf~rd has joined Mycro-1ek alignmmt lVith comemporary operating C1I vinmments. Ta publish Tela: 6503066263 of Information International. Also JonadwI W. Seybold, Pr4iiIIItr as vice president of finance and chief the infimnation in a timely fashion, IVe prepared this story in Cnis E. <line, AJ.Mt, Etlizor added to the board were Ralph Roth financial officer. He previously was cor­ ad)'ance, based an visits ta Interlea! Gr-cgory SIan, A.aUwtt EtIizor and Leroy Bell. Roth had served as David Baron, A.aUwtt Etlizor porate treasurer at Westrac Invest­ Dcbonh Griffin vi~ president,. technology, of Knight­ ments_ NTERLEAF'S Technical Publishing Software (TPS) has KmnHoward Ridder un~ . hiS retirement last year_ been the leading publishing software for U nix work­ Lori Luc BeU, who Jomed Triplc-I in 1973 as MIDllnfonnation Logistics Group I stations for several years, but in the past year or so the Jill Zipua wCste~ regional sales manager, has company's stature has diminished. Its desktop programs­ KarhIocn Kader has hired Pamela Gennusa as a consult­ Interleaf 5 In OpenWinclowo aMroameDt. Interleaf's new soft­ Imerleaf Publisher for PCS and Macintoshes-have both sold Dalc:OIinn been ~ce president of CUStomer sup­ ant_ She comes from Datalogics, for ware looks much like TPS, but key changes were made beneath the pon smce 1979. sluggishly and did not establish Imerleaf in the mass market IIart>ara Jacoby which MID is the European distribu­ surface. Here it is running inside Sun's X-based windowing technol­ UKOftIa the way it had hoped. At the same time, the company has been tor. She will specialize in SGML and ogy, OpcnWmdows, although it docs not yet make use of the Open 26A Seaside Xyvision has appointed Wendy undergoing a rough transition from selling the rurnkey systems Look user intcmce. CAI.S applications. Pam is a mem~r of Eastboume, East SUSSCJ, BN22 7Q1 Wheeler vice Presiclent of marketing that we re once its core business to selling just software and Phone:: (44)323 410561 the ANSI and ISO working groups, services, such as consulting, training and support. level of software across aU of its platforms and, starting next Fax: (44) 323 410279 and Jeffrey Crown director of market which created and review the standard uwd Brunner Interleaf faced several problems. First, its unique combi­ rear, to offer products that comply with other graphical user development for the Contex line of for SGML. She currently chairs the Candy Youngoon color systems Wheeler a 10 nation of a fast WYSIWYG text editor and superior graphics mterfaces. Shirley Nookcs _. , -year vet- DoD CAI.S Electronic Publishing Com­ editors were no longer sufficient differentiators in the market. One of Interleaf 5's distinguishing traits is its support for eran. of Computer, had been ............... P~e mince. Its workstation software sales remained strong, but the "active documents." In rebuilding its software, Interleaf has Wdliam J. SoIimcno servmg as Vice president and general 4 Tahanlo Trail, PO Box 159 r.r. __ ~ competition in the PC and Mac markets foreshadowed rising made every component of a document, both text and graphics, Phonc:: (508) 456-8990 ' ,- '~u, MA 01451 m.~~er of the Organization for IndllS- competition on the Unix front. As FrameMaker, Ventura and an object that may have programmable attributes. We wrote Andrew Tribute, E........ Etlizor Fu: 456-3149 tn cscarch, a smaU software com- other competitors advanced from the low end, Interleaf needed about lnterleaf's active documents concept when it was HazcIpovc Fum pany owned by Prime. With Prime she APT offers new a product that was immediately recogniz.able as more advanced introduced at the Seybold Seminars last March (see Vol. 19, No. HaaIcmcn: Rd., Brook GodaIming had been vice president of markenn' 'g than its competition. At the same time, its advanced fearures 14) . With the introduction of Interleaf 5, this fearure is now Sun-cy GU8 5LB, England and t chnical Chameleon proofer Phonc:: {441428 682249 e suppon, managing a 250- had to be valuable to customers. realized in a product. Fu: {441 428 684802 person department and $47 mill' In one sense, Interleaf 5 is Interleaf's seventh major nual budget. Ion an- BR-hy 'Persian supports Cora Another issue Interleaf faced was its user interface. The Gcxxge Alcundcr desktop it created in the early 1980s-before graphical user release to TPS in eight years. From that point of view, Interleaf 137 Rutgm /we S- .... - Crown Phonc:: (215) S43 _ 5970uu,~<, PA 19081 d h jO~ed Xyvision in 1989 Applied Publishing Technologies . interfaces were generaUy available for computers-has become 5 is TPS 5.O-TPS as we know it with the addition of some c.. i 1 .... an as served m sales and sales man­ (APT) is offering a new, less expenSive a liability in the general software marketplace, where applica­ programming extensions. Shuhci HIltOri,J..... At first glance, there is little in Interleaf 5 to differentiate agemen~ capacities for the Contex line version of its Chameleon proofing.5Y.s- tions arc now expected to follow the graphical user interface Hish Technology Communiaticns, Inc. He earlier held sales positions with . supplied by the computer manufacturer. Thus, at the same it from TPS 4.0. But a closer examination reveals fundamental, Hadliko Bldg., 1·34-6 Takadanobaba, tern. caUed the Baby Chameleon, It IS Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 Japan scve~ companies in the Pittsburgh time that Interleaf needed sophistication, it needed a product underlying differences in the new code. According to Steve based on a DeU 210 PC (a 12 -M~ Pelletier, Interleaf's chief technical officer, the guts of TPS Al=2-7391 ; Fu: 232-7395 ~ ~IUding McDonneU Douglas '286) and a QMS PS-410 PostScnpt that was consistent, from users' standpoints, with other ,c...., ere e managed national and I~ applications they might run on their computer desktops . were overhauled more in this release than in any other. There Groox EIbcsrnac: 2n Haml.·- 5 printer. a1 ' lnterleaf 's answer was to peel apart much of its TPS are three main areas in which the overhaul is significant: Phonc:: {491403 91 09 01 -5 0, 0 -2000 salc:s of c0r.nputer-integrated manufac­ It provides the same function Iry product and create a toolkit from which software applications • ModuUar IIrcmtem.re. Intcrlcaf is calling 1nterleaf 5 an Urban Jana, s-.u...;. tIlnng eqwpment and software. as me full system, but it supports only IIoJ 413, 183 24 nby, Sweden may be built. The toolkit fits Interleaf's view of its role in the open architecture, but "open" means many different things Phonc:: {4618 768 18 92 Charles Bcrnitz h Cora input. industry-it must broaden its services at the same time that it to different people. In Interleaf 5, the architecture is a Yva Stan, F_ '.