I'd like to get the collective wisdom here in the Indesign world.
We use ID CS5 in separate locations in the U.S. often working on the same files. We fired up Version Cue of CS3 and despite it shortcomings, it saved a world of hurt in version control and sharing the same assets. The Adobe Drive 2.0 kept our work alive and functioning, trading off VC cs3's shortcomings with its own. But we will not be using Version Cue much longer since its end of life status at Adobe. That's their prerogative, we just need to be realistic about replacing it. We want a similar system that has a version control element and a DAM.
Reading this board and others, my perception of Gridiron's Flow is that it appears on paper to be a good version-control system, but unprepared as a DAM across several time zones.
I'm talking with NetXposure as that appears to be a decent back end to a DAM. They're trying to present a solution that integrates with how Indesign checks in/out assets and files.
We're aware of Adobe's new acquisition of Day Software, but know no one who uses it.
Of course, we could mirror this virtual server overnight with rsync but then we give up the ability to know that the live file we're working on today might have been updated earlier in the a.m. The pain of working on the wrong version is enough to make me wince.
I'd love to see a discussion of this from interested parties as there may be a new paradigm that I've not considered. I was happyt to see the discussion re: working off the server recently as we're clearly in the server camp. We're working with hundreds of client files with many potential hands touching it. thanx, sam
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