Visitor number HOISe news server with Primeur and VMW magazines more than doubledAlmere 06 Jan 00"We are very pleased with these numbers", said Ad Emmen,
editor-in-chief of the Primeur & VMW news magazines. "The exploding number
of visitors to our news services clearly shows we are on the right track with
providing information on advanced IT, especially HPCN and telemedicine, with a
European focus. Our readers value news on European developments, that cannot be
found in the American HPCN and telemedicine news sources."
With over 10,000 visitors a month, Primeur & VMW are by far the largest Internet
news source on HPCN and advanced IT for telemedicine in Europe. Readers come from
all over Europe. But also the USA, Japan, and Canada contribute considerably to the
readership. The HPCN news service Primeur reaches the desktop of all major vendors,
supercomputer centres, research centres and large industrial users. Both VMW and Primeur have an additional readership of subscribers who receive the
magazine by e-mail. "These e-mail subscribers are important, as they do provide feed
back, which helps us improving the quality of the news service", says Ad Emmen, "because
they pay for their subscription - as opposed to the web service which is for free - they
are keen at getting the news they need."
For 2000 the Primeur & VMW news service again hopes to be able to double the number of
visitors. 'The web site from the innovative TV programme "Big Brother" counted 50 million page
views in 100 days. Although we do not expect to reach that level in the near future with our
innovative IT news service, it shows there is always room for improvement. Although
Primeur is edited in Almere and "Big Brother" was broad-casted from the same city,
the main difference between the two is that in "Big Brother" the information content is reduced
to zero, while we try to maximise the information content for our readers,' said Ad
Emmen who works from the Almere office.
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