Too many people in the localisation related world are believing the hype of Machine Translation. They think we’re just “months away” from having something that will translate any material from any language into any other language. Truth is we’re miles away from anything that’s even near practical for 90% of the material we have to localise.

The recent release of the Trados Suite 2009 from SDL has met with widespread consternation at the coalface. Content providers have much to consider before migrating.