Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

At 2:08 AM -0400 7/28/01, Neil Palmer wrote:
>Another "freebie".  Renamed AS/3X World or something like that, then
>folded about a year or so ago (or supposedly merged with some mainframe
>magazine whose name I can't recall right now - that might have half a page
>of midrange content).

    You're thinking of 2 different magazines.  "AS/400 Systems 
Management", aka "Systems 3X/400", aka "Small Systems World", aka 
"System/3 World" died with the Feb 1999 issue, as far as I can 
determine.

    The "Midrange Systems" tabloid was folded into "Enterprise 
Systems" magazine sometime last year. Supposedly the AS/400 content 
was to be included in an insert each month, but as far as I can tell 
that lasted 1 month.  About the only AS/400 content I've seen in 
there lately are the ads at the back.

<reality break not directed at Neil>
    Couple these failures with the failure of MC and the incredible 
shrinking News 400, and one would have to be trapped in an massive 
reality distortion field to really think that the AS/400 market is as 
string as it was 5 years ago.  We're down to 2 competing journals, 
and one of them is sponsored by IBM.

    Look at some of the ads in those old magazines.  How many of those 
companies are still alive and well, and still in the midrange market?
</reality break>

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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