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The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 2

2013/06/12 By Rob

In Part 1 of this series we looked at a model of product adoption and market share that had a special and valuable property:  the parameters of the model could be derived from a single survey question, e.g.: “What is your awareness with the hand … [Continue reading] about The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 2

Filed Under: Marketing, Open Source, OpenOffice

Who wants to develop OpenOffice for Tablet?

2013/05/29 By Rob 2 Comments

One of the most common user questions I see on the Facebook and Twitter streams for Apache OpenOffice is "Do you have a iPad version?" or "Do you have a tablet version"?   Although there are companies that offer access to OpenOffice via a virtualized … [Continue reading] about Who wants to develop OpenOffice for Tablet?

Filed Under: Open Source, OpenOffice

The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 1

2013/05/13 By Rob 2 Comments

"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful" said G. E.P. Box of Box-Jenkins fame.  Today we're going to look at a model of market share, and I hope it is a useful model.  One nice property of it is that it is very easy to estimate the … [Continue reading] about The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 1

Filed Under: Marketing

Mapping the ASF, Part II

2013/05/06 By Rob 1 Comment

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 … [Continue reading] about Mapping the ASF, Part II

Filed Under: Apache, Social Network Analysis

Mapping the Apache Software Foundation

2013/05/03 By Rob 2 Comments

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 … [Continue reading] about Mapping the Apache Software Foundation

Filed Under: Apache, Social Network Analysis

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