And marketing isn't about sales either. All you define is how to sell lots of products. But the whole point in marketing is, that you focus on the customer. And for linux, well, it is almost impossible to define some customer. Even if you talk about a desktop user it is not this easy.
There is this saying that a desktop should be easy to use for you grandma. Is this true?
You can't tell. This just depends on how you focus your strategies. It is not always about sales. And it is not about the number of costumers.
The real goal for every enterprise is the growth of sustainable value.
Maybe you don't have to compete with MS. MS is a whole other market. For many users, freedom is more important than Photoshop. It is not about the products, it is about the customer.
A first marketing action would be:
Identify your goals. And I mean real goals, you know, the ones with five components.
Later you can develop a strategy. Now you can define a customer and just now you can look out how linux fits in.
The other way around, it's senseless.
In fact Schily is not what I consider to be a good politician. He has won the Big Brother Award two times. But well this quote is the best I have ever heard of him.
http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/
... because I imagine all this effort for JS to be for Python. Hell, JS is kind of cool, but only kind of. A the world there Python is tinkered on would be really better.
You are right: It "doesn't have to be". I was on drugs;)
The definition of trees in graph theory is clear: they are connected acyclic simple graphs*. So the nodes could not be interconnected.
But hey you are right, in the original sense of your post. Maybe I wound too much theoretical connection between FS and DBMS.
Back to the topic: Don't you think that there is a high risk to built up smth. like CODASYL** did? I mean I have programmed in that and I really prefer the declarative nature of hierarchical structures. I mean meta-dictionaries are an important mean of RDBMS for just exploring and if you have to expose this for your daily work, it might get confusing.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclic_graph#Trees
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
A file system is a database of binary objects, a hierarchical database to be exact.
No. A file system could be hierarchical -- it must not. Look at WinFS et al. And I personally don't use my Unix FS in a hierarchical way, I use links whenever I want to. This totally breaks the tree-model.
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And marketing isn't about sales either. All you define is how to sell lots of products. But the whole point in marketing is, that you focus on the customer. And for linux, well, it is almost impossible to define some customer. Even if you talk about a desktop user it is not this easy. There is this saying that a desktop should be easy to use for you grandma. Is this true? You can't tell. This just depends on how you focus your strategies. It is not always about sales. And it is not about the number of costumers. The real goal for every enterprise is the growth of sustainable value. Maybe you don't have to compete with MS. MS is a whole other market. For many users, freedom is more important than Photoshop. It is not about the products, it is about the customer. A first marketing action would be: Identify your goals. And I mean real goals, you know, the ones with five components. Later you can develop a strategy. Now you can define a customer and just now you can look out how linux fits in. The other way around, it's senseless.
In fact Schily is not what I consider to be a good politician. He has won the Big Brother Award two times. But well this quote is the best I have ever heard of him. http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/
... because I imagine all this effort for JS to be for Python. Hell, JS is kind of cool, but only kind of. A the world there Python is tinkered on would be really better.
You are right: It "doesn't have to be". I was on drugs ;)
The definition of trees in graph theory is clear: they are connected acyclic simple graphs*. So the nodes could not be interconnected.
But hey you are right, in the original sense of your post. Maybe I wound too much theoretical connection between FS and DBMS.
Back to the topic: Don't you think that there is a high risk to built up smth. like CODASYL** did? I mean I have programmed in that and I really prefer the declarative nature of hierarchical structures. I mean meta-dictionaries are an important mean of RDBMS for just exploring and if you have to expose this for your daily work, it might get confusing.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyclic_graph#Trees
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
A file system is a database of binary objects, a hierarchical database to be exact.
No. A file system could be hierarchical -- it must not. Look at WinFS et al. And I personally don't use my Unix FS in a hierarchical way, I use links whenever I want to. This totally breaks the tree-model.