Slashdot: Slashdot Acquired by Andover.net
Jun 29, 1999, 08:58 (3 Talkback[s])
"Slashdot keeps growing. The overhead and costs associated with
running this beast has become astronomical. Hemos and I work
marathon weeks, and there still isn't enough time to get everything
done. There are always banner ads needing selling, stories needing
posting, perl needing hacking, and readers with questions needing
answering. Besides that, our single channel ISDN connection is
awfully saturated, and the "Business" work of running this website
is beginning to be nearly as much work as the "Website" part of the
site.
"We had 2 options: get cash from some investors and hire a
staff, or or find a company that we felt understood what we wanted
to accomplish here, and use their money to hire help."
Complete story.
