Re: Performance Computing (was Unix Review) closing down ...

[Brian Mann <bmann@twow.com>]

Michael Rogero Brown wrote:
> > ``However, we are confident that
> > our readers' information needs and our advertisers' need to effectively
> > reach the most technically knowledgeable buyers of high-level IT products
> > can be best met by other CMP products such as InformationWeek, Intelligent
> > Enterprise, Sys Admin, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and Network Magazine.''
> >
> 
> Sorry, don't agree.  I get some of those mags and NONE cover the same areas
> as PerfComp & Windows Systems.  These two were aimed at SUPPORT people, not
> IT buyers.  These others just don't aim at those areas.
> 
> Stupid.

You're absolutely right except for the "Stupid" part. Why? Because of
the way the magazines are paid for. Advertisers finance the publication
of these mags, and they want to target the people with the checkbooks.
For the most part, that is NOT the support people. This is a corporate
decision that has to do with money, not with meeting the needs of the
readership. We may think it's stupid, but I'll give odds there's some
financial officer thinking that this is WAY overdue!

Brian
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