[Am-info] 10 years of sucking up to Microsoft pays off for one
company
John J. Urbaniak
jjurban@attglobal.net
Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:55:11 -0400
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"Goodbye Michael J. Miller. I'll miss you most of all."
John
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 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
>
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
>
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"Goodbye Michael J. Miller. I'll miss you most of all."
<p>John
<br>
<p>Paul Rickard wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> According to several sources
referenced on Slashdot today,
<br>Ziff-Davis is on the verge of bankruptcy. The tech media publishing
<br>house, which was recently separated from its semi-successful ZDNet
unit,
<br>is struggling to pay its bills and has almost no cash on hand. They
<br>already eliminated 6 of 15 magazines in the last few months and appear
to
<br>be on the verge of killing off a few more. Even flagship publication
PG
<br>Magazine is down to under 1 1/4 million subscribers, greatly reducing
the
<br>impact of John C Dvorak's crap. A "restructuring" plan will be announced
<br>by Friday. This is their reward for a decade of living inside Microsoft's
<br>anus and destroying any magazines that don't cater to the techno
<br>illiterate small office/home office/housewife Windows user. As the
one
<br>reader comment on Linux and Main says, "ultimately, too much kowtowing
to
<br>adverstisers becomes transparent. At that point, you have screwed the
<br>pooch."
<p> <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/29/1233251&mode=nested&tid=149">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/29/1233251&mode=nested&tid=149</a>
<br> <a href="http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=156">http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=156</a>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/business/media/29ZIFF.html?ex=1028520000&">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/business/media/29ZIFF.html?ex=1028520000&</a>
<br>en=73c9a4f95c212ba8&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA
<p>======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
<br>--------------------------------[ <a href="Http://www.msboycott.com">Http://www.msboycott.com</a>
]-----------
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<br> to take effect.
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