Andover.Net Bolsters Corporate Services With New Magazine.Business/Technology Editors ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 Leading Open Source and Linux Web Destination To Bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. Growing Corporate Services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. With B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business Magazine for IT Management Andover.Net (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ANDN), the leading Internet destination for Linux and Open Source computing, today announced its August launch of Open, a magazine for senior technology planners engaged in acquiring and integrating Open Source solutions for the enterprise. By identifying buyers and builders of Open Source systems, Open rounds out Andover.Net's Corporate Services initiative for Linux and Open Source projects, which includes a broad range of fee-based Internet services that include on-line expert support, application updates and project consulting. "At Andover.Net we use a collaborative support model over the Internet to extend service on thousands of products to thousands of corporations," says Bruce Twickler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Conventional support models have dozens of people supporting dozens of applications but Andover.Net has 3 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month who can give support." "Our leading web sites like QuestionExchange.com and Freshmeat.net already serve a community building enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. strategies on Open Source software," says Bill Dwyer, Andover.Net's vice president of publishing. "But there are still a lot of companies seeking ways to adopt superior Open Source solutions. Now we'll be there in print with Open, whose mission is to bridge technology and business issues to help them work through the challenges of the most important revolution in the history of software development." A key component of the Open editorial package is OpenBench Labs, which will assess the business benefits of IT technologies. All benchmark software, Dwyer notes, will be maintained as Open Source projects on SourceForge.net. "This enables Open's readers to go far beyond simply replicating the tests in Open, by giving them the opportunity to actively participate in designing the logic and methodology of the magazine's testing." Derek Carroll Derek Carroll was an Irish soccer player who played in the League of Ireland during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Carroll began his career at Dundalk before moving to Liverpool in 1978 in a combined deal with colleagues Brian Duff and Synan Braddish. , vice president of business development, adds that "The advantage of going to print is that 100,000 corporate subscribers can now opt in for a wide variety of newsletters and other support information that our Corporate Services will be delivering." Bill Claybrook of Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. says, "For 21st century organizations, critical factors will be having the programming resources and management of product development processes to ensure client satisfaction. In the Open Source space, Andover.Net has the most resources available to these companies for contracting, collaborating and distributing products from start to finish." Open will be free of charge for qualified IT professionals Subscriptions are available on www.openmagazine.net. The new site also maintains information for advertising and PR agencies. About Andover.Net Andover.Net (NASDAQ: ANDN) is the leading Linux destination on the Internet. Serving 60 million page impressions to over 3 million users each month, Andover.Net (andover.net) includes the largest news/community site, Slashdot (slashdot.org); the largest site for programmer resources, Freshmeat.net (www.freshmeat.net); QuestionExchange (www.questionexchange.com), providing online Linux support; and the popular developer e-commerce site, ThinkGeek (www.thinkgeek.com). With these sites and our other Linux sites such as FreeCode (www.freecode.com) and LinuxDaveCentral (linux.davecentral.com), Andover.Net accounts for over 50% of the visits to Linux destinations on the Internet. Andover.Net also includes cross-platform sites such as MediaBuilder (www.mediabuilder.com) that provide programmer and developer resources for users of many popular operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. in addition to Linux such as Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Macintosh. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Andover.Net's limited operating history, expectation that Andover will incur substantial losses in the future; Andover's reliance on Linux/open source community; Andover's heavy reliance on advertising revenues; intense competition and other risks listed in Andover.Net's S-1 registration statement. |
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