Re: Zdnet Article

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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- John Donagher Application Engineer Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web 408-395-0989 720 University Ave. Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com Public key available off http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 4024 DF50 56EE 19A3 258A D628 22DE AD56 EEBE 8DDD