To: InformIT.com

From: Fabian Pascal

 

This is to introduce myself as the author of PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT for Addison Wesley Longman [Ed. Note: both AWL, who published my and Chris’s books] and InformIT are subsidiaries of Pearson Education). More than a year ago I tried to contact InformIT via AWL and propose some cooperation, but they were unable to get a response.

I believe my work would be of interest to your users, including my website, writings and educational work. For example, together with Chris Date, another AWL author, we have started a series of papers on database fundamentals that we would be glad to offer at a discount to your users. I would also be interested in producing educational material for InformIT--online, for home use, or in print form, or any combination thereof.

I would be glad to discuss all this, as well as contributions to your site/newsletters. If this is of interest, please let me know.

 

From: Jennifer Bortel
To: Fabian Pascal
CC: Esther Schindler
 
It's wonderful to hear from you!  I'm sorry that you didn't get a response earlier.  We'd be very interested in working with you.  Our channels may be limited at the moment to posting free articles (which are of course related to selling your books) but we'd certainly love to discuss the various options. 
 
I'm putting you in touch with Esther Schindler.  Esther is our site manager for database topics.  At the moment we're focused primarily on SQL Server, but it sounds like your content is applicable to all database formats and would therefore be a welcome addition.  Your series on database fundamentals sound particularly promising.
 
I'll leave you in Esther's capable hands at this point, but please don't hesitate to contact either of use with suggestions, questions, or comments.
 
Sincerely,

Jennifer Bortel
Associate Editorial Director, InformIT

 

From: Esther Schindler
To: Fabian Pascal

 

Thanks for getting in touch, Fabian. I'm afraid we really are focusing only on articles specific to SQL Server at this point t... and we're rather booked with those.

Esther Schindler
editor, InformIT.com

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal
To: Jennifer Bortel
 
It's like I expected. Seems like you don't have many enlightened people like you at InformIt. Too bad. Thanks for trying.

 

 

 From: Oracle User Group
To: Editor

 

Thank you for your offer. Although we occasionally have topics related to database theory we prefer to keep our meetings related to Oracle specific topics and the use of Oracle related-tools.

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

To: Oracle User Group

 

I don't do theory. It is precisely because you focus only on product-specific material that you [erroneously] think I do.

 

Ed. Comment: One of the misconceptions caused by lack of knowledge of the fundamentals is the concept of ‘theory’ as anything that is not product-specific. Which is, of course, nonsense.]

 

 

Posted 08/01/03

 

 

 

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