[Am-info] 10 years of sucking up to Microsoft pays off for one company

[Paul Rickard]

     According to several sources referenced on Slashdot today, 
Ziff-Davis is on the verge of bankruptcy. The tech media publishing 
house, which was recently separated from its semi-successful ZDNet unit, 
is struggling to pay its bills and has almost no cash on hand. They 
already eliminated 6 of 15 magazines in the last few months and appear to 
be on the verge of killing off a few more. Even flagship publication PG 
Magazine is down to under 1 1/4 million subscribers, greatly reducing the 
impact of John C Dvorak's crap. A "restructuring" plan will be announced 
by Friday. This is their reward for a decade of living inside Microsoft's 
anus and destroying any magazines that don't cater to the techno 
illiterate small office/home office/housewife Windows user. As the one 
reader comment on Linux and Main says, "ultimately, too much kowtowing to 
adverstisers becomes transparent. At that point, you have screwed the 
pooch."

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/29/1233251&mode=nested&tid=149
  http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=156
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/business/media/29ZIFF.html?ex=1028520000&
en=73c9a4f95c212ba8&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA



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