[osol-mktg] DTrace and Mac OS X

[Jim Grisanzio]

Patrick Finch wrote On 08/09/06 17:07,:
> I found this interesting:
> 
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=DTrace&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
> 
> Although there was no real annoucement, other than a mention on an Apple 
> product page and a couple of blogs, according to Google analytics, we 
> just had the biggest spike in searches for "DTrace" to date: bigger than 
> its annoucement in the summer of 2004, bigger than it being opened in 
> January 2005.
> 
> Patrick


Very interesting. There were a lot of good blogs but only one press 
article (that I've found so far). I collected some links here:
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris?entry=dtrace_rides_the_leopard

I don't understand the Kyoto reference, though. Bigger than San 
Francisco? I seriously doubt it. But if there is a DTrace on Mac 
community there, I'll take a look. :)

I think Bryan summarized it well when he said that this brings us into 
contact with 19 million Mac users. That's a pretty big user community. 
And the Mac is used through the open source community, too, so our stuff 
is clearly getting out there.

Also, it's good for us here in Japan. I understand that Apple has a 
larger share of the market here than they do in the U.S. This will come 
in handy when we engage university professors and students (which we are 
planning right now).

Jim
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