“We thought we had it sorted out. A day before deadline, and it
looked like the magazine was going to make it to the printers on
time. Close enough, anyway. Then the e-mail came in: vendor
withdraws product from sale. Generally not worth much attention,
but in this case, it was devastating because the product in
question was half of a head-to-head comparison in the magazine we
were about to send.“No biggie. Products get withdrawn, renamed, updated, or changed
all the time, and usually you can fudge it. Vendor x says it will
shortly release a new version of product y which has such and such
extra features. Something like that…”
Related Story:
Update:
SCO Suspends Distribution of Linux Pending Intellectual Property
Clarification(May 15, 2003)