Quick comment -- Agile project management doesn't seem a good fit for Application Life-cycle management. App Life-cycle management relates to a long term life-cycle of applications with notions like deployment, ongoing management, when to end of life, etc within the enterprise setting. (anyone feel free to correct me)
Perhaps you could give more info on the target market? Michael On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Niki Scevak <niki.sce...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The free and easy way is to look up public companies in the space. Is > there a company that is public that is a leader in the space? If so, > search for them on edgar.sec.gov and look up either their 10-K (annual > report) or S-1. > > If the line of business you are trying to measure isn't their primary > business but is important, try looking on their investor relations > section and look for any presentations they have given at i-banking > conferences. > > If you still can't find anything, then it's likely the market is > really tiny and not worth measuring anyway. And in that case any > forecast is just your opinion against someone elses. > > On May 22, 10:33 pm, Matt Moore <innotect...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If I was not the moral, upstanding citizen that I am, I might approach > > a vendor in the "application life-cycle managment" space, pose as a > > customer, ask them about their market share and then cut that figure > > by 50%. I might also get a Gartner/Forrester analyst drunk (they are > > all lightweights so this is a reasonably cheap move) and ask them the > > same question or approach a friend at a large IT firm with access to > > their reports and ask them to slip me something in a brownpaper email. > > I could also ask an IT manager at a corporate and ask them to tell me > > who the main players are and what they think of them. > > > > Not that I would do any of those things. > > > > It all depends on what you want that data for. > > > -- __ Michael Harries --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
