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Just my 2c worth regarding Does slow growth equals slow death?

I vaguely remember a keynote by Geoffrey A. Moore at JavaOne 1997 or 1998 talking about platform and application businesses. In this talk, he was making the point that market for software platforms is traditionally divided basically into 80% marketshare for one vendor and the rest of the vendors share the remaining 20%, whereas application software markets are more like two or three rather large vendors, let’s say 40%, 30%, 20% and the rest of the players are small niche players.

Although a bug tracking system may sport a healthy third-party plug-in business, bug-tracking is essentially application software, not platform software like operating systems or databases.

Disclaimer: I may have gotten the percentages wrong, but you get the point.

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A67. Pfungstadt. Traffic jam. Blogging about it on my iPhone while cursing at the guy in the car next to me. I guess I just arrived in the future. Yeah, I know I’m the last one. I close the door.

You know it’s Programmers Day if they opened up a Starbucks about 100m from your office.
Uhm, and the length of our bug/task list is measured in kilometers, so back to work. We need to hit that ship date.

Jeff Atwood (slightly rephrased): Complexity is the path of least resistance.

David Heinemeier Hansson talks about offline web applications: You’re not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn’t matter)!.
No, I’m not on a plane. But I live in a non-urban area – you know, trees and stuff. At home, my DSL download bandwith is limited to 384 kbit/s. My upload bandwidth is 64kbit/s. Did you ever try to upload a picture to your web application with 64kbit/s? Plus, I would like to access my data and work with an application while sitting on our deck. Did you every try to talk your wife into plastering your house with WLAN base stations?
And if I’m on a plane, I may want to access my data and compose content in my applications. I don’t necessarily need the online connection in the plane (especially if it’s $30 for a few hours), but I need access to my data and application.
Plus, there are trains and stuff. Did you ever try to work with a web application in a train where the connectivity is flaky at best?

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