[osol-mktg] DTrace and Mac OS X

[Jim Grisanzio]

Yah, I agree in general. But if Google's geographic breakdown isn't so 
great, what about their other data? Humm ...

Unless ... unless there actually *is* a community thriving among the 
shrines and temples there. :) Hey, you never know. One thing about all 
these web stats that is cool is how small groups in far away places can 
now have serious visibility without needing to go through the funnels 
and filters of mass media. Maybe the engineering students at Kyoto 
University jumped all over this? Maybe there are interesting OpenSolaris 
projects occurring in this and other regions that we are not aware of? I 
mean, who knew about Apple's port?  Fascinating stuff.

This may be interesting, too: http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.htm

Anyway, I'll go and check. And you'll love the pics, too. :)

Jim



Patrick Finch wrote On 08/09/06 18:35,:
> 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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