Submitted by “The success of Mozilla’s Firefox and Openoffice.org’s productivity suite has breathed life into people’s aspirations about Desktop Linux. As a result, the vast majority of articles published today focus there and ignore the strides made on the Linux server. Unlike the Linux server of the past, today’s version supports rocket science and its gains far exceed those of the Desktop.”
Small notice: I disagree… unfortunately Openoffice is still far from being a success like Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox is clearly a larger success than OpenOffice, but still OO.o is quite a success. Many Firefox users also use OpenOffice.
In my CS-class most are using FF and half of the class is using OO.o
But OO.o still has some way to go, before it’s as big a success as Firefox.
If you look closely to Firefox’s success, you should really applaud the work done by their marketing department and their irritating but much needed task.
This is not to demerit the fantastic work done by the developers but we have been witnesses of technicaly superior projects going unnoticed just because there was no fancy campaign around them to get the projects out to the crowds.
I think THAT in THIS world is what is necessary for a product to succeed. Even if something is not so great technically speaking, there’s still a chance it gets its ‘Golden Age’ given that the cards are played smart enough (sorry I’m too “Civilized” by now 🙂 ).
Unnoticed: Opera.         -Marketing? where?
Succeeded: Windows.   -No need to explain this.
Edited 2006-05-21 09:56