Where went LTR?

[didierj]

As an update to this topic I'm wondering why LTR is down. This seems to be since several days (not too long, since I was there one or two months ago).

Does anyone know more?

[Yair]

As an update to this topic I'm wondering why LTR is down. This seems to be since several days (not too long, since I was there one or two months ago).

Does anyone know more?

It seems LTR is gone forever (look here), which is unfortunate, because I did appreciate their coding challenges.

[Phillip Brooks]

Copied from Info-LabVIEW posting, 29 Sept 2005:

The deluge of thank-you notes and kind expressions that we have received since announcing the LabVIEW Technical Resource's last issue is greatly appreciated. The success of LTR during our 12 years of publication has been due to the great support from the LabVIEW community -- technical reviewers, authors, and customers. We want to express our appreciation to the LabVIEW community.

The difficult decision to end production of LTR was not for profitability reasons, as has been speculated, but rather for rate of return reasons. Historically, applying these same resources and assets to other business/product lines that we own has resulted in higher rates of return.

There has also been some speculation as to whether this publication should convert from print to electronic. LTR successfully converted some of its international product lines to fully electronic versions several years ago. However, the true cost of production of LTR product lines is not in the printing costs, but rather in the editorial, testing, and quality control effort to provide quality, applicable material that supports all platforms and LabVIEW versions. Those that have submitted articles know of the editing, review, and software testing cycles that goes on to provide technically accurate and applicable articles

An idea was proposed on the Info-labview site that LTR should be included in the SSP package. We have discussed this type of value-added addition to the SSP program and other ideas with National Instruments over the years. However, other than successful pilot programs with a few international SSP programs, the idea was never formally adopted.

As far as the future of the LTR Publishing business, two larger publication houses have expressed interest in buying our assets. We chose to stop publication efforts as we work toward this transition.

There is no guarantee at this time that the content will stay LabVIEW based. It is possible our order fulfillment and production processes will be purchased for use with other content.

It has been a great opportunity to work with the LabVIEW community - a passionate group generous with their time. We're proud to have supported the LabVIEW community and run a successful business for 12 years. Thank you again for the outstanding community support.

Karen Pape

Managing Editor

LabVIEW Technical Resource

860 Avenue F Suite 100

Plano, TX 75074

Phone: 214-706-0587 x104

Fax: (214) 706-0506

[didierj]

how bad.

hmmm... Last time I went to LTR I was interested in some volumes, but got outraced by problems in my factory. Now LTR is down and I can't get them anymore, or is there still any resource?

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

didierj:

The internet archive wayback machine may come to part of your rescue, try some of these cached pages (did not see any for 2005 though )\

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ltrpub.com

[Mike Ashe]

I just tried and was able to get the cached pages, but not download any of the samples/code, etc.

Makes me wonder what happens to the copyright on all the code that was sent through LTR over the years. Is it lost to the LV community? It occurs to me that it would have been nice, since LTR decided to go out of business/print, that all the code should have been donated to the open community after contacting and receiving okay from the authors.