Last year I did a three-part blog (“The Power of Brand and the Power of Product”) describing a simple model of product adoption and market share, and showed how the parameters of that model could be determined using a single survey question. I used the open source productivity suites, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, as examples. […]
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The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 3
In the previous two parts (one and two) I described a model of product adoption and market share that could be built with a single survey question. I applied this model to the open source productivity suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice, looking at adoption in September 2012 and April 2013. The results were described in detail […]
Mapping the ASF, Part II
In my last post I showed you one view of the Apache Software Foundation, the relationship of projects as revealed by the overlapping membership of their Project Management Committees. After I did that post it struck me that I could, with a very small modifications to my script, look at the connections at the individual […]
Mapping the Apache Software Foundation
So, what do we have here? This is a graph of Apache projects and how they are related, by one definition of “related” in any case. Click on the image for a larger PNG version, or here if you would like an SVG. Each labeled circle (node) in the graph represents one project at Apache. […]
From the Whispers of ApacheCon…
From the whispers of ApacheCon, OpenOffice.org may never leave the incubator project. The intention may be to do a thorough code audit and produce one last, clean release that the rival LibreOffice can absorb. That was what you may have heard 10 months ago, if you listened to the rumormongers. Certainly there were a lot […]