Andover.Net Launches Print Magazine To Cover Open Source Revolution; Internet's Leading Open Source and Linux Destination Goes to Press with 'Open'.Business/Technology Editors ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 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 computing - computer , today announced the launch of Open magazine, which will premiere in August. Editorial content in the new monthly will feature benchmarked product reviews, technology briefings and detailed case studies that reveal the dramatic changes Open Source is making on information technology. "Andover.Net created a powerful vertical portal A Web site that provides news, articles and services to a particular industry such as IT, finance and retail. It is the industry-specific equivalent of the general-purpose portal on the Web. Also called a "vortal." See portal, corporate portal, business intelligence portal and Web hub. for 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. Dwyer notes: "Our leading Linux and Open Source sites, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net, already recognize the 'three C's of successful web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. : Community, Content and Commerce. But the market is adding a fourth 'C'...Change. For some time, the only operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. to gain on Microsoft in market share has been Linux. Next--Apache, also Open Source, became the number one web server. Now the hottest niche in the storage market, Network Attached Storage, is being enabled by Open Source 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. like Linux and FreeBSD. That leaves a lot of decision makers, who must align business goals with technology strategies, struggling to stay on top of the change. We'll be there in print as well as on the Web to help them work through the confusion." "The magazine's mission is to bridge technology and business issues for technologists building IT strategies upon Open Source products," says Dr. Jack Fegreus, Editorial Director of Open. A key component of the editorial package will be OpenBench Labs, which will not only review products but will also assess the business benefits of IT technologies, providing better context for key technology planners. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr. Fegreus, all of the benchmarks utilized by OpenBench Labs will be Open Source software projects. "This will enable all of our readers to go far beyond simply replicating everything we do. Now they will have the opportunity to actively participate in designing the logic and methodology of all of our testing." Michael Lamattina, publisher of Open, says Andover.Net's first magazine challenges traditional publishing strategy in that it inverts the traditional relationship between print and Web-based media. According to Lamattina, "Traditional magazine publishers focus their energies on print media and relegate rel·e·gate tr.v. rel·e·gat·ed, rel·e·gat·ing, rel·e·gates 1. To assign to an obscure place, position, or condition. 2. To assign to a particular class or category; classify. See Synonyms at commit. the Internet to supplementing print material and archiving past issues. At Andover.Net, we start on the Web with two-way flow of information and then follow that up with the print magazine. This gives us a truly comprehensive information system." Commenting on the launch, Lamattina notes, "We can deliver breaking news in the blink blink the involuntary movement of one or both eyelids of both eyes simultaneously. The frequency varies between species. Cats blink the least, with the possible exception of owls. In birds it is the lower eyelid which is moved up to meet the upper lid. of an eye and provide our readers with electronic forums and peer-to-peer communication via the Web. Now with the magazine, we can fulfill their most detailed information needs. What's more, in the true spirit of the Open Movement, we can utilize the Web to enable Open's readers--many of whom are key decision makers--to engage in an open dialogue for guiding content. This complements Andover.Net's new 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. program in identifying and communicating with key decision makers adopting Open Source development methods." 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 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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