New York, N.Y.--Earthweb, Inc., the leading provider of business-to-business online services to the global information technology industry, has acquired Visual Developer Magazine from The Coriolis Group. Whitestone Communications represented The Coriolis Group in this transaction.
Visual Developer is the leading language-neutral publication for Windows software developers using cutting edge visual tools, including Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, Linux/Gnome and Visual Cafe Pro. Unlike nearly all other magazines for the developer market, Visual Developer is neither product-specific nor (apart from its Windows focus) technology-specific. As such, it appeals to a broader range of readers and advertisers than other titles in its field. Visual Developer is an important tool for the productivity-driven programmer who faces stiff competition in a marketplace of perpetually shrinking product cycles.
Publicly traded on NASDAQ, Earthweb focuses on the needs of 15 million IT professionals worldwide and serves as a central business-to-business intermediary between these professionals and vendors of IT products and services. Through multiple Internet sites, the company offers the largest online technical knowledge base and a vast range of proprietary online technical data, reference, training, community and resource directory content for IT professionals.
The Coriolis Group, part of Haights Cross Communications, LLC, is the leading provider of certification training materials and services in the information technology field. Key product lines include the Exam Prep, Exam Cram and On Site study and training guides.
Haights Cross Communications, founded in 1996 as a joint venture between Peter Quandt and Great Hill Partners (a Boston venture capital group), has seven operating units focused in professional publishing and supplementary education. They include Oakstone Publishing, a publisher of acclaimed medical and legal periodicals and books; The Coriolis Group, a leader in certification training and technology book publishing; and Newbridge Educational Publishing and Sundance Publishing, fast-growing supplementary educational publishers in science and reading, respectively. In 1999, Haights Cross sales approached $100 million.
