************************************************************ DSS News by D. J. Power September 24, 2000 -- No. 11 A Bi-Weekly Publication of DSSResources.COM ************************************************************ Check the JavaScript Decision Aids at http://dssresources.com ************************************************************ Featured: * Ask Dan! -- When can I buy a printed copy of your book? * What's New at DSSResources.COM * DSS News Stories ************************************************************ We have more than 2100 visitors each week at DSSResources.COM and we now have more than 300 subscribers to this newsletter. Please forward this email to colleagues who are interested in DSS. They can subscribe by sending a blank message to dssresources-subscribe@topica.com . ************************************************************ Ask Dan! When can I buy a printed copy of your book? Recently, I received the following message. >Subject: I want your book >I am valiantly trying to read your book online since the print option >is not enabled. My home work space is not very comfortable. If I could >purchase a paper copy from you I would like to. Your book is a heck of >a lot more insightful and informative and succinct than the course text >I bought. Keep it coming. Thanks. I always appreciate receiving nice comments about my DSS hyperbook. On Sunday, September 24, 2000, I posted an updated version of Chapter 1 at DSSResources.COM. In the past few months that chapter has been downloaded more than 1800 times. I am in the process of revising chapters 9 through 11 and I need to complete chapter 12. So, it is not possible to sell a completed book at this time. What am I looking for from a publisher? I want a publisher that can bring expertise and credibility to the project. DSSResources.COM needs to remain part of the mix in publishing a printed book. I want to keep the book current, but I don't want to deal with order processing and order fulfillment. I have investigated operating my own e-commerce site, but it doesn't seem justified for one book!! Also I need some marketing help. I am exploring a number of opportunities for publishing and selling the finished book. One possibility is publishing it as eMatter at fatbrain.com. You would pay about $20 for the entire book and each buyer could print out a single copy of the book. The problem, of course, is possible abuse of the copyright. A second possibility is working with a "new" publisher like atomicdogpublishing.com and having a Web version and a print version. Readers could buy and access a Web version where pages could be printed for 6 months or buy the printed version. A third possibility is to publish the DSS Hyperbook with a more traditional publisher like Wiley, Greenwood (Praeger and Quorum) or Sage. What ever happens I hope I can keep a read-only version at DSSResources.COM. As I said, I'm exploring these possibilities and I hope to know more in the next few months. Your comments, suggestions and feedback would be much appreciated. Dan ************************************************************ What's New? at DSSResources.COM 09/24/2000 Posted revised Chapter 1 "Supporting Business Decision-Making" of the DSS Hyperbook. 09/17/2000 Updated and posted Chapter 8 "Implementing Communications-Driven and Group Decision Support Systems" of the DSS Hyperbook. 09/16/2000 DSSResources.COM received Visual Xtreme's "Bronze" award of excellence. Posted award in About Us. 09/15/2000 Updated and posted Chapter 7 "Building Data-Driven Decision Support Systems" of the DSS Hyperbook. ************************************************************ DSS News Stories - Sept. 11 to Sept. 22, 2000 09/22/2000 Galaxy.com announced top ten sites on the Web to find Finance information. 09/21/2000 U.S. Air Force selected Lockheed Martin to modernize its air, missile and space command and control (C2) systems; 15 year program may cost $1.5 billion. 09/20/2000 KPMG Global Study: Majority of companies see Internet transforming their industry role. 09/19/2000 Deutsche Bank invested $33 million in AlphaBlox and formalized a strategic partnership. Deutsche Bank has developed business critical analytical applications using the AlphaBlox platform. 09/19/2000 IBM purchased Stampede's TurboGold client-to-server accelerator for its more than 300,000 Lotus Notes users worldwide. 09/18/2000 Actional Control Broker to play key integration role in Dresdner Bank's new Web-Based Loan Pricing Tool. 09/15/2000 SPSS and Informix partner to deliver Analytic Customer Relationship Management solutions. 09/14/2000 Aviation executives test system from In-Flight Network and Globalstar that allows commercial airline passengers access to low-cost, high-speed Internet and e-mail services in-flight. 09/14/2000 Informix Extended Parallel Server software, a high-end data warehouse product, set a world record in the 1000GB TPC-H benchmark on a Sun Enterprise 10000 server. 09/14/2000 IBM announced several new models of its NetVista PC family and a 1GB Microdrive. 09/13/2000 USA Truck has selected Logistics.com's OptiStop(R) and Strategic Profitability Analysis(TM) decision supportsystems. 09/13/2000 Comshare and Informix partner to resell Ardent DataStage and Comshare products. 09/13/2000 Oracle bests IBM DB2 in new study on Database Total Cost of Ownership. 09/12/2000 Comshare received certification as a mySAP.com software partner. Comshare Decision provides OLAP reporting to the SAP Business Information Warehouse. 09/12/2000 Departments of Justice, Labor, the Interior, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services failed a computer security review. By The Associated Press CNET News.com. 09/12/2000 GeoQuest introduced DecisionPoint. It is a new solution to transform upstream petroleum decision-making. ************************************************************ This newsletter is available online at http://dssresources.com/newsletters/ . ************************************************************ DSS News is copyrighted (c) 2000 by D. J. Power. Please send your email to power@dssresources.com. You have previously subscribed to the DSS News Mailing List. To unsubcribe, send an email to dssresources-unsubscribe@topica.com . |