Greetings,
I’m a 13 year veteren of the IT field working in a rural Maine community. I have followed the IT industry for around 18 years and have been avtive in a national ISP organization, writing for an ISP publication and at one point engaged in communication with the major IT publications.
Here we have what is billed as a publication and resource designed for us… you and I… the little poeple who make IT work for the untold quantities of small business that supposedly are the back-bone of this country.
I sincerely hope that this resource lives up to the billing.
To my veiw the last independent publication that had the guts to tell it like it is was Byte magazine and it was bought up and silenced by the IT publication monopolies. Since that day, no publication has dared to take on the industry for fear of offending the vendors that pay for the publications to continue.
I my view this industry is driven from the top down and we get to deal with what we are fed. Having realistic product reviews and opinions are not part of the current IT press and have been pointedly prevente dand removed.
Simple issues like the true reliability of Hard Drives. Our experience has shown that over the last 3 years Maxtor had serious quality issues. We have seen nearly all of the Maxtor drives we installed 2-4 years ago die. We stopped buying them over two years ago. Seagate had to do some serious pedaling in order to placate folks liek us that were afraid that the crappy Maxtor drives would start coming out with Seagate labels…
Anywho.... this industry has been run by the vendor community.
Will this publication be able to make inroads?
