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

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
>      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...

Such an apt description.  Does conjure quite an image.  As they say, you 
are what you eat.

> ...and destroying any magazines that don't cater to the techno 
> illiterate small office/home office/housewife Windows user.

I'll have you know my mother-in-law is very happy with her Red Hat based 
system.  Although not technically a housewife (retired, one person 
household), I will say, if she can do it ANYONE can.

Further, I'd say I'm running a nice little 'small office' and a 'home 
office' here, not a sight of Microsoft anywhere.  You might consider 
modified terminology.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?