Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:31:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD market share statistics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909081523560.40462-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990908231358.49363@ns.int.ftf.net>
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> David Schwartz writes:
> >
> > The software industry is a very strange one. In pretty much every other
> > industry, the question is "will I make more money on this thing than it
> > costs me to make it?" However, due to the shortage of talented programmers,
> > in this industry the question is more often, "is this the most effective
> > usage of my limited programming resources?".
> >
> > This is a question that relies completely on relative numbers. FreeBSD's
> > market is considered relative to every other market. Not in absolute
> > dollars.
>
> Hmmm maybe. I agree about "scarce programming resources", but still,
> that isn't the case of every software company, no ?
> (programmer vs. potential income considered)
It is always the case in any software company that plans to stay
afloat. I could give you a detailed narration about this inre the old Word
Perfect Corp. and the fiasco with the "OS/2" version of their product, but
suffice it to say that lack of talented programmers multiplied by a
rapidly expanding number of platforms (where rapid is a relative term)
means that every software company has to make hard choices about what
platforms to support.
Doug
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