Presumably z/Journal accepted advertising from Microsoft, and presumably z/Journal has an open advertising policy of some sort.
Now, I wish all publications would be more explicit and label advertising more clearly. It sounds like at least a few people got confused and assumed this advertising represented z/Journal's editorial viewpoint because they didn't know it was advertising. In these sorts of cases some publications will add an explicit disclaimer such as: "The following is a paid advertisement from Microsoft, and the views expressed are solely those of the advertiser. You are now leaving z/Journal...." BBC News, for example, puts the following disclaimer next to every external Web link: "The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites." I don't know if z/Journal already did this, but I think I'd encourage such a label if not. However, I'm not the editor or publisher. I'm just a random subscriber with a personal opinion. z/Journal's owner has a payroll to make and bills to pay, so I think it's perfectly fine that they accept advertising from Microsoft or most anyone else, subject to some reasonable and universal advertising standards which I assume they already have. Heck, if Microsoft wants to provide some of the funding to keep z/Journal strong, and if z/Journal can then print more useful articles about *sensible* mainframe strategies, that's terrific. Just as long as there's a clean separation between editorial content and advertising, it's good. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
