Servoy has come a hell of a long way since I saw it get a great review in MacUser magazine.
Isn’t it about time it had a new review in one the key mags ?
Harry
I’ve taken a keen interest in this topic & have begun reading the more serious-IT-oriented online mags. I’ve also had the chance lately to learn a tiny bit about how a software title gets reviewed – serious tech editors cannot respond to what must be a deluge of direct emails from software companies who are hoping for the exposure.
The timing of your question is really good, Harry … Servoy has recently been through the first step in the “how to get noticed for a review” process: Their Servoy Reduces TCO press release got distributed via PR Newswire and therefore has aleady been run under the nose of many a tech journalist/tech editor.
Then, just last week in Ziff-Davis’s eWeek.com magazine, tech editor Peter Coffee wrote an opinion piece after he left the JavaOne conference completely smitten (almost in a weird way!) with what is happening on the Java frontlines, and talking in, like, religious tones about the future of the platform.
He invited his readers to email him: “I therefore hope to hear from more Java technology creators and users in weeks to come.” I jumped on that opportunity to tell him about Servoy, and I posted to the “Talkback” feature on that page, as did Michael Rochard.
The original article is at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1831897,00.asp
Coffee’s email address is at the bottom.
Hint.
Hint.
kazar
YES! Press is a good thing. Fire up the email chain and see who you know that knows a reviewer!
Jan Aleman was interviewed by a top editor at eWeek recently while in Boston. The editor mentioned that he will ask Peter Coffee to review Servoy, but noted that he cannot MAKE Mr. Coffee do that.
So it might be a good time to ping Mr. Coffee again (from more than just Illyse?) asking him to look at Servoy.
DON’T tell him I sent you…