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Anyone Know Anything About Wrox in the US ?







Anyone Know Anything About Wrox in the
US ?

Anyone Know Anything About Wrox in the
US ?
03/19/2003 10:24 PM

Anyone Know Anything About Wrox in the US ? A lto of us technical types have books from Wrox (those are the red books). Apparently in the UK they're in trouble: It would appear that Wrox press have gone into insolvency. Their investors pulled the plug. All Wrox employees are now out of a job, whilst the recievers work out what's saleable and what is not. All accounts payable are on hold -- no-one will get paid till this is resolved. [_Go_] and [_Go_] Now the question is "What about Wrox in the US?". Comments anyone? Oh and a big thank you to James for some MySQL help earlier today. Much appreciated.




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