Anthony Long wrote:
There was a thread in which Andrew Aitken indicated he would check with
contacts at research firms regarding tracking of OOo. Have you gotten
to this yet?
One of the reasons we missed the recent Wired magazine article on open
source vs. msft market share is because we didn't have statistics like
these.
Wired would know that this is a difficult task and one that we have been
attempting to solve for some time now, such that we could not respond to
a journalist with a number that is not supported with references.
Sam Hiser was very active in this area and contributed much into the
current survey. He put a lot of effort into establishing "hard" numbers,
and while not always supported, had some good arguments to back them up
and get you thinking.
The statistics published in the SMP were collected from publically
available documents. John and I found a few sources of industry research
reports that may well take OpenOffice.org into account. I would like to
think so when you pay 100s-1000s of dollars for the reports. Note: I'm
not sure whether we included references to the reports in the
bibliography unless we used them. Perhaps we may set up a further
reading section on the MP.
If I wished to use funds on the surveys and reports, I would want to
know how they collected and analysed the data to include OSS, for
example, OpenOffice.org. And I guess if we know this, we would be doing
this ourself.
Cristian's work on the survey inconjunction with other data was showing
promising results and we want(ed) to have a new survey ready for 2.0.
However, very few people have contributed or provided feedback to get
this task off the ground. See my quote from another mail of 30 Aug 04:
"Cristian's initial call (3 May 2004) for comment and volunteers was
cross-posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgNo=538
After receiving no feedback on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a little from
native-lang participants, we decided that the best place for this
discussion was [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgNo=548
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgNo=549
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgNo=550
It would be great if you could read Cristian's previous posts, and add
or contribute to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28544
If you would like to work with Cristian on the survey, please add
yourself to the cc list of issue 28544. "
Since then a few more comments have been added to the issue, but it has
not moved forward since then.
This is high on my priority as a MarCon, and I want to have something
resolved by the end of this quarter. Any insight?
I know journalists do often contact you at the last minute, but please
forward any difficult questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may wish to ask Tom Adelstein, Sam's partner how he found "16%".
See: http://www.linuxjournal.com/comment/reply/8037, "In 2004, we saw
the OpenOffice.org office suite take approximately a 16% share of the
total office productivity market.".
Market share is extremly important as an indicator for an emerging
product into a market with an establish market leader. As well as one of
the most FAQ by journalists it is also a measure as to the health of a
marketing strategy. We need to know where we are going and whether we
are there yet :) Which is why we try to work on this on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and now on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
Jacqueline
PS I have cc'd Sam as I don't know whether he is on the BizDev list, but
he is on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list so I have set the Reply To: there.
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