Slashdot Changes Name

29 Jul, 2004 at 11:27pm ET Article published in Tech

The Open Source Developer Network, the VA Software division that operates Slashdot and several other Web sites, announced Thursday that it has a new name: the Open Source Technology Group.

The renaming is part of a move to get advertisers to recognize that mainstream information technology personnel read the sites, not just geeks, said Patrick Ferrell, the general manager of OSTG. “Open source has become a real significant trend in the technology marketplace. It’s no longer something just for the developer community,” he said on Thursday. OSTG is profitable, he added.

Now that slashdot has gone commercial, will it lose its grassroots following that it was infamous for? -KF

Source: ZDNet

Comments

29 Jul 2004 ~ 11:29pm primesuspect I wonder if it will also lose the "STFU N00B" elitism too.....
29 Jul 2004 ~ 11:41pm KingFish If all those CEO's are at the site as reported, they better. It'll be a short run at commercialism if not...

KF
30 Jul 2004 ~ 12:46am primesuspect So now instead of getting "slashdotted" we get "Opensourcetechnologygroupped"
30 Jul 2004 ~ 1:18am Thrax Everyone's still going to call it /.
30 Jul 2004 ~ 2:27am mmonnin Yep, I will still call it /.
30 Jul 2004 ~ 2:34am qparadox Its just OSDN changing its name ... Slashdot will always be /. its faaar too strong a brand to change that quickly.
30 Jul 2004 ~ 10:11am Linc A successful brand like 'slashdot' is hard to come by. Total waste.