This statement doesn't fill me with confidence that IBM might change course:
" IBM’s Greg Gorman, an IBM director who owns the developerWorks website, said the community overreacted to the announcement, and that the closures are not as broad as they are believed."
https://www.itjungle.com/2019/10/30/ibm-to-kill-developerworks-site/
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From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: Developerworks imminent demise - Save the content!
Let it be known that this has IBM's attention. Whether or not they will have a solution in place that is satisfactory to all of us here and in the wider IBM i community is unknown (unlikely?) at this point.
I pointed out to them today for example that all of IBM's RFEs flow through DeveloperWorks and the lack of that alone should scare the dickens out of upper management.
Many of the things we technical folk use on a daily basis they care less about of course. As a consequence myself and my peers at COMMON Europe are in near constant communication with those who own this stuff.
Daily we are relaying 'yet another thing' we don't want to lose. They are starting to get it.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
P.S. Geographay IS a big deal for IBM but they already have to deal with hundreds of geopraphies for everything else they do so it kinda got a free ride.
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