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Bugtracking is not a platform business, either…

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:13:18 +0000

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 the 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.

Upgrading my blog to the latest MT 4.23 templates

Hans Martin Kern — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:36:21 +0000

…let’s see if this entry makes it to the main index.

Abblasen…

Hans Martin Kern — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:20:25 +0000

…mehr fällt mir dazu wirklich nicht mehr ein.

Now I get it….

Hans Martin Kern — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:50:19 +0000

…that’s what Twitter is for: Plants twittering.

Converting to Movable Type 4.01

Hans Martin Kern — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:31:27 +0000

So far, so good. Let’s see if this post shows up on the page.

Arrival

Hans Martin Kern — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:53:08 +0000

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.

Programmers Day

Hans Martin Kern — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:39:53 +0000

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.

I’ll take fries with that…

Hans Martin Kern — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:09:54 +0000

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

I’m not talking about being on a fucking plane

Hans Martin Kern — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:57:53 +0000

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?

Presentations

Hans Martin Kern — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:34:34 +0000

Watch it. You may learn something on how to give an insanely great presentation.