> -----Original Message----- > From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:48 AM > Subject: Re: Tiobe, O'Reilly Radar, and niches [WAS Re: > ComputerWorld decl ares CF dead] > > Little incentive for them to compete with themselves on a general book > and little incentive to try and write a higher-end book for a smaller > market (eg higher end CF developers). Java one gets 20-30k people; > CFUnited gets something like 1500 (MAX is hard to count since it cuts > across Flex, Flash, etc) so assuming 10% of those folks buy a given > book it's easy to look at the math. > If it was good business, they'd do it. That's all it is -- business.
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