A tipster writes: "Big cuts at CMP/Techweb this week also... Light Reading lost a couple, InfoWeak... death of print!" TechWeb, an infotech trade publisher formerly known as CMP, is best known — if you can call it that — for its flagship print title, InformationWeek, and also runs a collection of websites and events.

The thing Valley veterans learned long ago — a business plan the startup punks of today can't execute on even when they finally figure it out — is that the real money is in writing software for massive, faceless corporations. To that end, the Software Development West conference takes place this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Big-brained corporate wonks mingle with Indian outsourcing gurus. Parent company CMP, the tech publisher and conference organizer couldn't have picked a worse time for a rebranding.