After the printed issue of VISUELL "The News Magazine For the Picture Business" shipped last week with my five-page story about "Middleware Technologies", the story is now also available online (Link).
After a small introduction I´ve done some interviews with VPs and Execs of Getty Images, Mauritius Images, Laif, photo portal Fotofinder, etc. and the picture editing department of german magazines Stern and Spiegel.
The story focuses less on the technology itself, but more on the benefits (virtual photoportals for photo sellers and photo buyers) for the user regarding products like -- alphabetically -- the Communication Server (Confessmedia), opengate (picturemaxx) and The Missing Link (DiASystems).
The story will be also appear translated in the international issue of Visuell next month in December, but without the additional and marvellous comment (Link) of editor-in-chief Stefan Hartmann. As the Krauts are apparently sometimes strange people, no one outside Germany would probably understand the comment without heavy, heavy background information.
However, the story is online only availabe to regular subscribers of VISUELL.
Technorati Tags: middleware technologies; software; Confessmedia; Communication Server; DiASystems; The Missing Link; picturemaxx; opengate; Krauts
[Image via object plus; this company is not involved and has got nothing to do with this kind of middleware technologies]
