With all the name changes we had recently one could get confused. Over the years our good and faithful XPP has been ‘owned’ by the following companies:
- Xyvision
- Xyvision Enterprise Solutions (X.E.S)
- XyEnterprise
- SDL XySoft
- SDL
So depending in which decade (century?) you were using XPP, you could be speaking about:
- Xyvision IPS (Integrated Publishing System)
- Xyvision XPP,
- XES XPP (hmm:-),
- XyEterprise XPP,
- SDL XySoft XPP (almost as short-lived as the too sexy XES XPP).
Finally nowadays the official product name is: SDL XPP.
To my big suprise, I learned today that there is also a thing called SDL Perl.
Great, so now I can have an SDL XPP system and use SDL Perl. That sounds like paradise to me. Does this mean that XyPerl’s success story was so big, that SDL decided to use Perl as the language of choice for all their products? Not exactly, but SDL Perl does really exist. If you want to find out what it really is, click here.
Enjoy!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGoing back a little bit (Jay can chime in) we had Xyvision Integrated Publishing Systems. I still have my grey mini-binders in sleeves for Document Production Reference, Mastering Tables and Managing Fonts.
Now you can really run XPP with all the Bells and Whistles you want
Like Chuck I remember the days of Xyvision Integrated Publishing Systems and the mini-binders – I also remember loading the software via 3.5 inch floppy discs – how many of those would you need today???
When we bought the system over 20 years ago the main reason was “its the best piece of software for loose leaf work” – and that is still true today – there is nothing out there that will handle loose leaf in the intelligent way that XPP does. Long may that continue!
Chris
Ah, and I even remember the days we loaded the software using 8 inch floppies on the old 85 system.
The 3.5 inch floppies was on the way more modern and sexy tower systems (they were also sold under the Linotype brand for a short while…)
Well that makes sense as that is when I joined the Xy community – the first time I saw the stystem was at a Linotype demonstartion – then I got to know the Xy team here in the UK mainly Mike McNamara and Mark Hutchinson – never mind it got better after that!
Chris
I still have an eight inch floppy pinned to my cubicle wall to remind me of the speed at which we load software now. It used to take all weekend to upgrade our 85/95′s
But that was when we handled the hardware and the software… the towers or small business systems were the first step toward open architecture.
My mini grey binders are still intact. If only hanging on by threads. I have to keep them, they have all my notes in them.