Gary wrote:
> Also, do not forget that what appears in journal reviews IS based on their
> advertising budgets with those magazines - this is the real world you
> know!
You're definitely overstating it Gary. If it were literally true or
widespread, none of us would read journals at all.
Of course, perhaps you meant "some journals, some of the
time". But I can say that, in two decades of reviewing software
and books for a range of publications, I've never had a "steer"
from an editor about the desired outcome.
Naturally, Interbase would get more *attention* if it had larger
promotional and advertising budgets -- that's the biggest
weakness of Inprise/Interbase Corp as against, say, Oracle. But
please don't put the *content* of reviews down to advertising
pressure.
cheers,
peter
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