IX (magazine)

IX - magazine for professional information technology is a computer magazine, founded in 1988, published in German language. According to its own description, the name of the operating system Unix deduce. The edition is published by Heise magazine publishing. It has about 170 pages and is published monthly.

The target group are professional administrators and programmers. Unlike her sister magazine c't iX mainly aimed at specialist readers. The advertising slogan " Do not get any - so much the better " is trying to raise elite making this distinction.

Areas and their priorities

  • Market and Trends - Commenting on market trends and trade fairs
  • Title - The IT Topic of the Month
  • Review - Hardware and software testing
  • Report - focuses on legal, safety and operating systems
  • Knowledge - basic information on specific techniques
  • Practice - with emphasis on programming tutorials, server administration
  • Media - book market index, book reviews and internet information

Circulation Statistic

In the fourth quarter of 2012 the average monthly circulation was widespread IVW at 42 382 copies. These are 0.52 percent (222 books ) less than in the same quarter last year. The number of subscribers increased within one year by 1.03 percent to now 34 522 subscribers from. This relative 81.5 percent of readers the magazine subscription.

Number of common monthly expenses

Numbers of each fourth quarter.

Number of subscriptions sold each month

Numbers of each fourth quarter.

Others

  • Of the 64 467 printed copies 44 240 units were distributed. (As of 4th quarter 2010)
  • When the disk appearing on magazine input 64 was set in 1988, the editors of this magazine took over as the new project, the publication of the iX.
  • A peculiar feature the website address " www.ix.de " represents the second-level domain ix.de was until October 2009 one of three domains of the top -level domain ". De " with only two letters. This was because it had been registered before the minimum length is no longer in force was introduced by three characters ( the other two were db.de and hq.de ).
  • Introduced in 2006 Dutch edition ix - Magazine voor professionele informatietechnologie in Dutch appeared every two months for four issues and was discontinued due to low sales.
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