Me too, however, if you started to publish as you suggest which vendors are
going to buy advertising from you just so you turn around and publish a less
than perfect article about them? Remember this is not about publishing a
nice newsletter or magazine that gives you information; it's about making
money on the advertising. The ads they were running were not effective in
getting you to buy, so vendors stopped advertising. No advertising, no
magazine.
On the other hand, if you think there is a market for this type of product,
the cost of entry is now very low. Get yourself a cloud based web site,
start lining up authors and vendors willing to pay for advertising and
you're in business.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 6:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Penton Media Ceasing publication of iProDeveloper & Power IT
Pro
all of the industry pubs, with the exception of Timothy Pricket Morgan at IT
Jungle, are not very interesting these days. I would like to read about
which vendors are ripping off their customers and which do not. Who provides
great tech support. Interview retired IBMers for their perspective on what
is going on now and recount projects they worked on. Ask people about user
group sessions they have liked. Research shops to find out what they are
spending their money on. What it actually cost to upgrade to a 720. New
techniques that programmers are using that simplify their apps or save time.
Review the ebay market from time to time and interview the established
sellers. Report salary and contractor rates people are getting around the
country and international. Report to the reader the company names and
locations where ibm i is being used. News like that would interest me.
-Steve
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jon Paris' Blog:
The demise of iProDeveloper is the subject of this week's blog. Sad
day in #IBMi<
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ibmi?source=feed_text&story_id=101523
06649329780
land
http://t.co/1AM5MdudJT
Sad day indeed...guess I don't need to worry about sending in my renewal..
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