🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks for posting this message.  It's unfortunate that the book wasn't
publish 1-2 months after the release of Warp 4 as I required at least
six books for the business at that time.  I hope that you can solve this
problem and still publish the book.

> John;
> 
> My name is Dean Miller, and I am the Publishing Manager of SAMS operating
> systems and networking books. I am the one who ultimately decided not to
> publish this book. I don't think Cari Skaggs (my employee) lied to you. It
> was only two weeks ago or so that we ultimately decided not to move forward
> with the project. Cari's involvement in this project is illustrative of the
> problems we have. The two lead authors of this book, David Moscowitz and
> David Kerr, do an outstanding job on the chapters they write, however that
> total is less than 1/3 of the book. They then leave it to us to find
> authors for the remaining 20+ chapters in the book. We spent some time
> doing this, but you were one of the few willing to help us out, so we were
> not making a great deal of progress on getting the book done. We were now
> looking at a July or August title, 8 months late. (part of the success of
> the last three books was their release withing 1-2 months of new versions
> of OS/2--now all of you users will have had the product for almost a year,
> and we could be putting a book out on a relase of OS/2 which could be dated
> with 3-4 months depending on IBM's future decisions). This is never a smart
> idea.
> 
> That being said, I never told David Moscowitz the book was cancelled. What
> I told him is that I did not have the resources to line up 10-15 authors to
> write 1-2 chapters each. If he wanted to line up and subcontract all the
> contributors, we might still move forward.
> 
> Dean Miller
> Publishing Manager, SAMS
> dmiller@sams.mcp.com

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