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Birendra
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 Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: Airliners.net SOLD!!!! |
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The Mail i received from  "Airliners.net" <yearlymail>
| Quote: | Hi all,
As you probably know, Airliners.net keeps growing year after year with more photos, more forum posts, more visitors, more users and more photographers. This is fantastic. I could never in my wildest dreams have imagined this success when I started the site ten years ago.
And what comes with success?? Managing it. And I know you have felt some of the growing pains. There are infrastructure issues like trying to stay on top of the hardware needs of this site but complexities and the sites growth have caused outages. What started in my dorm room on one computer is now supported by 25 and thats not including all the network ear.
And there are administrative issues. Growing the site, supporting the community and keeping things running takes a big toll on me All Crew roups have long lists of bugs I need to fix and administrative features I need to add.
The last couple of months I've been thinking real hard on finding a long erm solution. We want Airliners.net to keep growing both in numbers and n quality of service to its users and be as strong in 10 years as it is today.
So today, I am happy to announce that we have agreed to be acquired by a company called Demand Media. Don't worry, I'll still be around. I will gradually hand over stuff like management of the hardware, the administrative stuff, programming work and so on. Henrik will also stay so you won't actually see any changes at all, at least not at first, and the changes will be for the better.
Demand Media is not a big company but are experts on what they do,
running community sites such as Airliners.net. They have the hardware, the server rooms, and the dedicated programmers to help out with all your programming requests and so on. I came into contact with these guys a few months ago and have been very impressed with what I've seen. Me and Henrik actually went over to Los Angeles (where the company is based) and sat down to meet them face to face. I have no doubts they will be able to help operate the site successfully for many years to come.
This is big news and I realize you will have a lot of questions and some
concerns. I've therefore setup a discussion in the crew forum where you
can ask questions and have me or Henrik reply. The Demand Media people will also be there to answer any questions you have:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/site_related/read.main/62921/
Thank you all,
Johan Lundgren
Founder Airliners.net
http://www.airliners.net |
Is there a similar fate that awaits www.airliners-india.net 
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lambuhere1
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |
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I Dont think so, Unless NIMISH has other plans.
It will be a while when if permitted Junior might explore that option 
Ram P
But I do hope A.net still holds to its data |
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HAWK21M
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefuly Better Managemenbt & better reliability in Data storage would help.
regds
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| lambuhere1 wrote: | | I Dont think so, Unless NIMISH has other plans. |
 Hilarious comment - I wish I had a stake (financial) in AI.net, but I don't. It's entirely set up by Aseem - so he's the only one with any financial stake |
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HAWK21M
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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With Aseem not posting as much these days.Somethings cooking 
What say Aseem.Chak de phatte.
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lambuhere1
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: |
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I believe Assem is playing his cards close to his chest.
One cannot judge anything unless ASEEM comes out from Sleep.
Aseem, where r u ? Everythings fine.
Caio
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Aseem
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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 We are LCCs of the forum world. No expenses, No revenue....nobody there to buy.
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lambuhere1
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Aseem
Even LCC (read DN) are always in the eyes of Predators (read IT)
So watch out.
Ram P |
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Birendra
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| lambuhere1 wrote: | Aseem
Even LCC (read DN) are always in the eyes of Predators (read IT)
So watch out.
Ram P |
I guess an offer was made, but Aseem thougt otherwise
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HAWK21M
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Imagine getting a sum for a Free forum...Thats a good deal Aseem.
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MEL
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Birendra
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| HAWK21M wrote: | Imagine getting a sum for a Free forum...Thats a good deal Aseem.
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MEL |
Good deal in what sense, Sir 
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Aseem
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Birendra wrote: | | HAWK21M wrote: | Imagine getting a sum for a Free forum...Thats a good deal Aseem.
regds
MEL |
Good deal in what sense, Sir |
somebody willing to purchase this forum, with our 0 captial expense....aam ke aam guthlion ke daam
p.s. provided they are willing to take on the liability in form of constant IC rantings 
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