Re: Performance Computing (was Unix Review) closing down ...

[Robert Hajime Lanning <lanning@kewltech.com>]

You're talking about having REAL editors. :)

---- As written by Mark R. Lindsey:
> 
> : At 2000/01/12/13:27 -0800 Duregon, Marino <Marino_Duregon@mentorg.com> wrote:
> : > "For a variety of business reasons, Miller Freeman has decided to
> : > discontinue the publication of [Performance Computing]. Thus, with
> : > this issue we bid you, our faithful reader, farewell, and extend to
> : > you our gratitude for the support and additional insight that you
> : > have provided to us over these many years."
> 
> David said:
> : My guess: the Web has made this sort of publication less important
> : than it used to be.
> 
> I'm not specifically arguing with you, because you're probably right.
> But that begs another question:
> 
> Where can you go on the web to find that collection and quality of writers
> and advertisers? Most of the material on the web is of relatively low
> quality compared to printed matter.
> 
> I tend to think that the web makes middlemen like magazine publishers
> even *more* important. More than ever, we need experienced people
> willing to sift through the poorly-written cruft to find interesting
> articles for us.(*)
> 
> Obviously, I'm disappointed to see them go. Please post any suggestions
> on similarly valuable sources. I'd also be interested to learn where the 
> regular writers from Unix Review start publishing, because I've learned
> a good bit from them.
> 
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> 
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> (*) Ganesan, Ravi: ``The Messyware Advantage: The precipitous rise
> of the middleman.'', Communications of the ACM, November, 1999.
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