Do you recommend Captivate for elearning?

We just learned of Adobe's decision to discontinue support of
Authorware. We recently spent several thousands of dollars
purchasing the software and training courses to learn it. Does
anyone in this forum have AW and Captivate experience that could
let me know if Captivate would be worth converting to?
Thanks!

There's been some reply to your post in the Authorware forum.
The only
thing I can add is, if you are doing either software
simulation or
fairly basic 'elearning', then Captivate is a suitable - if
not better -
piece of software than Authorware.
As to whether Captivate is worth converting to, it depends on
what
you're trying to create. Obviously, if it falls within
Captivate's
capabilities, then it's a decent replacement. However, I'd
say Captivate
will not be a suitable replacement for at least 50% of the
projects we
develop simply due to their complexity and Captivate's
limitations
(tracking is limited to SCORM, no complex/custom interaction,
no
Xtra/U32 support, no ActiveX control support, limited media
support, etc.)
Erik
Hotel Accounting wrote:
> We just learned of Adobe's decision to discontinue
support of Authorware. We
> recently spent several thousands of dollars purchasing
the software and
> training courses to learn it. Does anyone in this forum
have AW and Captivate
> experience that could let me know if Captivate would be
worth converting to?
>
> Thanks!
>
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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I'm working on an enterprise solution comprising of customer facing,
crm, reporting and back office solutions. The guis are slated to be
built entirely in Flex. We're still only in the planning stage right
now.
>
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But I'm skeptical about using a beta platform to launch our
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>
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>
>
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>
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future products but since Gumbo is an open source platform, is there
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>
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