For many years now I’ve considered InfoWorld Magazine my home.  I’ve blogged and raised many issues that have gotten both good and bad responses from the database community.  However, as of very recently InfoWorld has pulled my access and cancelled my blog of several years because they didn’t think I was writing often enough.  And while it’s true that I could write more often, quite often when I go to blog something the editor would deny it because it didn’t fit in with some image he was trying to make InfoWorld fit into.  This ‘image’ is not the image that made InfoWorld what it was and it’s not the image that built my blog as big as it was. 

This kind of treatment for someone who has worked hard for you for many years is just ridiculous.

So Database Underground is officially dead.  The blog may stay online for a little while, but there’ll be no more updates.  I’m told by a fairly reliable source that the guy who killed it is likely to delete all the content.  I don’t understand thinking like that.  Why wouldn’t you want to keep the content that has gotten so many hits over the years?

Anyway though I’m currently in talks with another publication to move my blog over there.  I’ll let you guys know when that happens.

Oh, and if you want to write a nastygram to the “admin” at InfoWorld who thinks good content should come down just because he wants it to then you can send as many emails as you like to Galen_Gruman@infoworld.com.