I cannot fault your logic, John. The actual market for any book dealing with Action Request System must be exceedingly small. And yet I see books on the market with audiences the must be equally tiny. For example, how many people in the world actually develop and administer PeopleSoft applications? Probably a fair number. Now, of that "fair number" how many are interested in SQR? (So interested that they'd buy a book.) A handful? Maybe 20? OK, 50, tops! But look at this:
http://www.amazon.com/SQR-PeopleSoft-Other-Applications-Second/dp/1932394001 Now, I happen to know a little SQR because I worked at Brio for awhile. It's a very esoteric query language. Oh, it's interesting, to be sure, but why is there a whole book on it? (OK, it's a pretty old book, but even in 2003 the market must have been a sliver of a sliver.) I know the technical book publishers are not interested in Remedy. And I know they have "good reasons" for not persuing the ARS market. But I'd bet you any amount of money if Oracle or PeopleSoft bought AR System from BMC, there'd be at least 5 titles on ARS within six months. And at least four of them would stink. John, they don't wanna, 'cause they don't wanna. --Tim ________________________________ From: John <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:13:13 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB ** Also -- I have thought of this too. Consider how many would actually be purchased? If BMC says they have 10,000 Sites -- how many customers is that? Lets assume 10,000. Lets assume they all want to buy 1 copy. That would be 10,000 sales. How much would somebody pay for that book? $100? OK - $1,000,000 in. However -- cost of publishing cost of writing cost of printing cost of selling opportunity cost to have gone fishing instead (this is quite high) I claim not 10,000 I claim not 100% I claim not $100. roughly half of each. Now we are talking $125,000 in. --- Not enough to do it. -John -- John David Sundberg 235 East 6th Street, Suite 400B St. Paul, MN 55101 (651) 556-0930-work (651) 247-6766-cell (651) 695-8577-fax [email protected] On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Pierson, Shawn wrote: ** Also, wouldn’t BMC have to give permission to the authors of such a book? How would you handle copyright terms, screenshots, etc.? I always assumed that the reason there are no Remedy books out there is because Remedy/Peregrine/BMC never gave permission to anyone. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB ** Also, a "Remedy" book would need to cover the ITSM applications, CMDB, SLM, KM and SRM. I just don't see a core ARS book being useful enough for the general reader. This Remedy book would need to be updated anytime a new version of ARS, ITSM, CMDB, etc, is released to be useful. Therefore it would need to be updated every 2 years or so, which makes the whole project unfeasible. I guess the only solution is for BMC to provide "more affordable" web based training... -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of William Rentfrow Sent: Wed 02/18/09 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB Hmmm....I've been looking for a writing project.... The worst part about writing a Remedy book would be bearing the examination of all of the extremely well-versed people on the list. I can see it now - "On page 77 you saying 'RUN PROCESS' is useful but you don't elaborate on the 413 ways it can blow up a server....." William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. [email protected] 715-410-8056 C 715-592-5185 O ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) __Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ Private and confidential as detailed here. If you cannot access hyperlink, please e-mail sender. __Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
