Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009
According to Dimitris – our JBoss AS 5 downloads had a pretty big bump in December and digging a little into the SourceForge stats a few other things jumped out. First December 2008 was the second biggest month for downloads of JBoss AS (all versions) since 2003 and the downloads (all versions) have topped 100k/month [...]
As I’ve said before, success in the new ‘adoption led’ era of software is about maintaining a great experience – like this example. I don’t care whether Rob is a paying customer or not today – what I do care about is his future potential to influence – multiply that by 20 million. Let’s hope [...]
Posted in Marketing, Technology, open source on Mar 26th, 2008
This is article explains the shortcomings of the way web application providers typically engage potential customers – ie. the web form. I wonder how much time people spend filling in these dumb forms (never to return to the site) – what a waste – for all concerned. The article got me thinking about technology adoption [...]