FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BZ Media Acquires Eclipse Properties from Penton Media
Circulation, frequency, content to be enhanced for EclipseSource newsletter, Web sites
Huntington, N.Y., April 25, 2005 - BZ Media LLC, publisher of SD Times and producer of the Eclipse World Conference & Exhibition, today announced the acquisition of Eclipse-focused properties from Penton Media LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The properties acquired by BZ Media include a digital newsletter called EclipseSource™, and two Web sites, EclipseSource.com and EclipseNews.com. The last issue of EclipseSource published by Penton was distributed on April 22, 2005. BZ Media will begin publishing the EclipseSource newsletter in early May.
Ted Bahr, President of BZ Media, said, "We are delighted to be the new publishers of EclipseSource, the leading newsletter for the fast-growing Eclipse developer community. It's clear that this newsletter, and the associated Web sites, have tremendous synergies with BZ Media's other properties, such as SD Times, the newspaper of record for the software development industry, and EclipseWorld, the first conference focused specifically for enterprise developers using Eclipse technologies."
Eclipse is an open platform for software tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform provides enterprise software developers with tools frameworks, integrated development environments, test/QA tools, a business intelligence and reporting framework and, most recently, a rich client platform.
The Eclipse platform is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation. BZ Media is an associate member of the Eclipse Foundation.
Alan Zeichick, Executive Vice President and Editorial Director of BZ Media, said, "BZ Media has exciting plans for EclipseSource. We will be increasing publication frequency to biweekly and nearly tripling the newsletter's circulation to 20,000 with the first issue that we publish in early May. We will also be able to research and report timely news content for EclipseSource, as well as its Web sites, using the extensive editorial resources at SD Times and our other magazines, newsletters and Web properties."
News submissions can be sent to eclipsesource@bzmedia.com. Advertisers can request rates and sponsorship information from Ted Bahr at ted@bzmedia.com or +1-631-431-4158 x101.
