Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: What are the most popular CAT tools used or required by translation agencies?
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: Their own CATs
Remember (or be informed if you didn't already know): some translation companies ask their translators to use the company's own CAT tool (presumably developed in-house) and translators in general seem to dislike this idea. See previous discussions here:
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I wonder why they do this. Possible reasons I can think of include:
Topic: What are the most popular CAT tools used or required by translation agencies?
Poster: Oliver Walter
Post title: Their own CATs
Remember (or be informed if you didn't already know): some translation companies ask their translators to use the company's own CAT tool (presumably developed in-house) and translators in general seem to dislike this idea. See previous discussions here:
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I wonder why they do this. Possible reasons I can think of include:
- They want to make it difficult for the translators to work for other companies;
- They want to prevent the translators from having their own copies of the associated translation memories or glossaries;
- They think they are so brilliant and have produced a CAT tool that is really better than the others.
- They want to be in control of the CAT tool's development and possible compatibility issues.