Joel on software link is also cool when you consider that google wave
is kind of groove rebirthed as an open platform.
Dylan Jay
Technical solution manager
PretaWeb 99552830
On 01/12/2009, at 5:57 AM, "Stroß-Radschinski Armin C." <[email protected]
e> wrote:
Today i googled an old statement of Paul Everitt on marketing focus:
Plone-the-product vs. Plone-the-platform, Joel-on-software edition
http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2008/02/05.html#a450
Paul wrote:
...
"strategy" means high-level kinds of questions like:
- What should Plone do well (vs. not worry about doing well)
- Who is it for (vs. not necessarily for)
- What makes it unique (vs. what things are commodity)
- Who are your natural competitors
The whole blog entry is worth a look in the current discussions
There he quotes a very important question made up by Joel Spolsky:
"It's really, really important to figure out if your product is a
platform or not, because platforms need to be marketed in a very
different way to be successful. That's because a platform needs to
appeal to developers first and foremost, not end users.
...
"
from
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Platforms.html
When talking about marketing activities we should always make clear
what audience we are adressing and WHY.
Beneath the main activities we always need to promote "Plone-the-
platform" as well, to encourage young professional developers to
dive into Python development as a cool best-practise piece of
software and "Grow up our developers".
Armin
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