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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:48:06 +0200
From:      Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD market share statistics
Message-ID:  <19990908114806.04124@ns.int.ftf.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990907234944.047c0980@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:55:39AM -0600
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Brett Glass writes:
> 
> I disagree; I think it's an important issue. It's a predictor of when
> we'll see, for example, native ports of commercial software such as
> WordPerfect Office, TripWire (the up-to-date version), Borland Delphi,
> CodeWarrior, etc. for FreeBSD. 

	And Jordan (among others) all say: "who cares, give us a Linux
	version, standardize on it, and we'll run it".  And we do.

	What's missing is install scripts that recognize FreeBSD.

> The manufacturers of all of the above
> products say that, due to the gap, they have no plans to provide
> native FreeBSD ports. And what about such mainstays as TurboTax?
> For Linux, one day, maybe. For FreeBSD? Not unless it catches up.

	They DON'T say due to the "gap"!  They say, "when we have
	significant user base", that is "when we have x million".

	We're talking ABSOLUTE numbers, with a sizeable possible
	income, not relative market share!

	Please, find me ONE example of a vendor who's given "relative market
	share" as the excuse for not porting their product.


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