2015-07-12 17:10 GMT+02:00 Andrea Giacomelli (pibinko) i...@pibinko.org:
Hello -
thanks to all who contributed and apologies for not re-entering the
thread earlier (I was actually drafting a reply on July 9, but a very
volatile network made me lose it!)...
anyway: I will respect those who
On Jul 9, 2015 6:42 AM, Camille Acey joyous...@gmail.com wrote:
Having worked on the sales side of a fairly important player in the space,
I can say this is not a trivial exercise. However, if you could give a list
of say the top five to ten players in the space, you might be able to pull
up
HI,
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Andrea Giacomelli pibi...@gmail.com wrote:
A simple way of getting the number is simply checking the revenue of the key
companies involved in the business.
I can't agree with this. That can work on closed software environment,
but on free libre software it
Hi Andrea,
Not quite the same question, but an easier metric to measure, is the
estimated cost of software to develop, using David Wheeler's method
for evaluating the cost of Linux to develop
http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html
You can find OpenHub metrics for OSGeo
Hi -
earlier I was at a cafe with a former colleague...a question arose: what
might be in 2015 the overall value, in terms of gross revenue, of the
market related to products listed as OSGEO projects, including incubating
projects.
I understand this might be a wild guess, or it might be not,
Hi Brian, and thanks for the inspirational overview. I totally agree with
it.
But if I go back with this to my colleague (I won't meet him at the cafe
after close-of-business today because I'm travelling, but tomorrow might
well be), he will claim that this is too much of a quasi-philosophical
