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To: HerbVic who wrote (14139)	5/29/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

Letter to FTC re: BYTE antitrust@ftc.gov: I bring your attention to an article in today's NY Times regarding the cancellation of BYTE Magazine by CMP, a publisher owned, in large part, by Intel Corp. BYTE's benchmark tests unfavorably compared Intel's Pentium II chips to Apple Computer's G3 systems. (Apple Computer had used these tests as the basis for its recent performance-driven ads.) Earlier this month, according to various press reports, Intel asked BYTE to revise its testing procedures. BYTE refused and reiterated it original conclusions favoring the Apple CPUs. Today it is announced that BYTE, which had been owned by McGraw-Hill since 1979 and recently purchased by CMP would be shut down. Ostensibly, the CMP/Intel's rationale was that it acquired BYTE for its mailing lists. I think there are cheaper ways to acquire a mailing list. With regards to your ongoing probe of Intel's anti-competitive business practices I urge you to investigate their shutting down an indepndent publication that provided credible cross-platform comparisons of hardware and software. -------------------------------------------- Byte Magazine Taken Out of Circulation. via NY Times >"The irony is there was less reason for Byte to exist as Windows became synonymous with desktop computing. But now that people are looking for alternatives to Windows, the need for a magazine like this becomes more critical." There was speculation this week over whether CMP had bought McGraw Hill's technology group, particularly Byte, simply to acquire its mailing list. CMP publishes a competitor, Windows Magazine, and competes with PC Magazine and PC World for advertising dollars and readers. John Dvorak, a columnist with PC Magazine, said he was "baffled" by CMP's intentions. "Did they see it as an enemy of Windows Magazine? I'm sure that the people running Byte would have preferred pooling their resources and buying the magazine themselves as a leveraged buyout," he said. "The sad thing is that Byte is a symbolic and historic publication that should not have met with such an ignominious finale. It's a crime." < nytimes.com