I actually don't think that understating the importance of the article, or
mocking its authors, is going to do us any good. Fact is that people do
read it, and worse, very often they only look at the bottom line, without
even looking for the reasoning.
I'd happily reply to some of their invalid points, but I couldn't even find
a place to do that in.
Zeev
At 08:56 18/5/2001, Michael Loftis wrote:
>They were actually considering Windows as a viable platform for a server
>at all.
>
>*shudder*
>
>John Donagher wrote:
>
> > Responding to this article only prolongs its life.
> >
> > Treat PC Magazine/ZDNET's reviews as you would a 3rd grader's book report.
> > These are not technical publications; they are the Popular Mechanics of
> the PC
> > world. When considering languages/environments to use when building an
> > application, very few people will read ZDNET publications to help them
> decide.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> >
> > > There is a disappointing trend in 'mainstream' commentary on open source
> > > projects. This is an example of one.
> > >
> > > In the last year of so I have had a lot of experience with poor media
> > > coverage of projects I am either involved in or follow closely. One
> of the
> > > worst being an all out attack on PostgreSQL by an indian online magazine
> > > resently which seemed to be directed at an entirely different project.
> > >
> > > I think the short-comings of this article should be addressed in a civil
> > > manner. An open letter to ZDNet and the author, for example. This
> could be
> > > posted on the front page of php.net and would probably get coverage on
> > > places such as slashdot and perhaps ZDNet itself. I would recommend
> > > against personal and emotion emails to the author or to ZDNet as has
> > > happened in other cases.
> > >
> > > Such an open letter could be arranged on this list or by some of the top
> > > developers. I think it unfortunate that especially in the case of Open
> > > Source journalists are not doing any research -- I say especially because
> > > there is such a large amount of information and support for open source
> > > projects such as PHP.
> > >
> > > I would be happy to draft a response if everyone else would like to move
> > > in that direction.
> > >
> > > Gavin
> > >
> > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Emmanuel FAIVRE wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2711724,00.html
> > > >
> > > > no word to comment that !
> > > >
> > > > just see a adbanner for ColdFusion on the same page !
> > > >
> > > > Manu
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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