Note:I'm not affiliated with the past or present TPJ publishers and editors in any way, except that I've been paid with money and subscriptions to write a few articles. ;)

Hey everyone,

I've the author of a couple of articles (Finance::Quote and Finance::Quotelets) that have been published in The Perl Journal. Obvisouly I don't know everything, but I'll explain what I can.

Earthweb (the previous TPJ publishers) didn't want to run with TPJ anymore, for reasons unknown, and handed the torch over to Sys Admin Magazine. Obviously there was much confusion in this process, as changing publishers is far from a straightforward task.

TPJ is now a suppliment to SysAdmin Mag, or you could just as easily say that SysAdmin Mag is a suppliment to TPJ. Those people with a subscription to TPJ will also receive SysAdmin, and vice versa. The small "new issue" is probably because nobody knew how to submit articles during the change-over period. My second article was published because it had missed issue #20, and the draft was handed over with the rest of the rights to TPJ.

The new editors (yes, there are new editors) appear to have their hearts in the right place, and I think that "impeding doom" is quite far from the mark. Companies don't usually pay for the rights to a magazine, put all the back-issues on-line for free, increase the amount they're paying authors, and invest the effort in producing a CD-ROM which will also contain all previous TPJ articles. To me, all that work indicates they think TPJ is going to be great.

There was a period when the future of TPJ looked shakey, but with new owners that's no longer the case. I think if anything we're just seeing a few teething problems.

Anyway, that's really all that I know. I hope that this helps to answer more questions than it raises. ;)

Cheers,
Paul

In reply to Re: TPJ as a supplement to Sys Admin by pjf
in thread TPJ as a supplement to Sys Admin by cLive ;-)

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