[osol-mktg] DTrace and Mac OS X

[Patrick Finch]

Quick note on Kyoto: the geographic breakdown on Google Trends seems totally flaky to me. 
  I wouldn't read anything into it.

Patrick

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 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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