Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Why are more and more agencies these days choosing memoQ or SDL Studio as their "preferred" tool?
Poster: Balasubramaniam L.
Post title: I don't see the problem
From the perspective of an individual translator, I don't find this trend uncomfortable at all. After all, if in the end the two prize fighters left in the ring (memoq and SDL Trados) beat up all the other cat tools to extinction and then fight one another to the finish, leaving just one in the ring, things become all the more simple for me. I just need to buy that final winner and master that tool, instead dividing my money and effort in buying and mastering half a dozen competing products.
As for the analogy of publishers asking writers to choose between two pens, isn't that what they already do? Most reputable magazines and publishers have stringent style sheets which authors wanting to publish their works with them have to scrupulously adhere to, and most authors do so uncomplainingly.
[Edited at 2015-11-16 14:02 GMT]
Topic: Why are more and more agencies these days choosing memoQ or SDL Studio as their "preferred" tool?
Poster: Balasubramaniam L.
Post title: I don't see the problem
From the perspective of an individual translator, I don't find this trend uncomfortable at all. After all, if in the end the two prize fighters left in the ring (memoq and SDL Trados) beat up all the other cat tools to extinction and then fight one another to the finish, leaving just one in the ring, things become all the more simple for me. I just need to buy that final winner and master that tool, instead dividing my money and effort in buying and mastering half a dozen competing products.
As for the analogy of publishers asking writers to choose between two pens, isn't that what they already do? Most reputable magazines and publishers have stringent style sheets which authors wanting to publish their works with them have to scrupulously adhere to, and most authors do so uncomplainingly.
[Edited at 2015-11-16 14:02 GMT]