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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Who are KDE's main competitors?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-12-05 13:37:37
Message-ID: 200412051437.43727.bastian () kde ! org
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On Saturday 04 December 2004 07:33, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Giacomelli [mailto:steve@orplex.com]
> > Sent: Sat 12/4/2004 3:01 AM
> > To: KDE Promo
> > Subject: [kde-promo] Who are KDE's main competitors?
> >
> > Who are KDE's main competitors for desktop enviroments?
> >
> > So far I understand that:
> >
> >     * Gnome
> >     * Windows (9x, ME, XP, 2k etc)
> >     * Sun's Java Desktop
> >
> > Are there more?
>
> The most important one is MS Windows. Next comes Apple Mac OS X.
> Then Sun.
>
> I, personally, take note of Gnome only in passing.

Sun and Gnome are important competitors because they are positioned very much 
in the same market as KDE. In particular, KDE competes with GNOME for 
developer mind share. Sun isn't so much a direct competitor as well as an 
indirect competitor: Sun competes with companies that are more supportive of 
KDE (supportive as in "contributing to KDE development")

In a way, Sun and Gnome also compete with each other, even though JDS is based 
on Gnome, Sun doesn't really acknowledge that in its marketing, so brand wise 
JDS and Gnome are distinct (From the Gnome side people try to identify Gnome 
with JDS in order to benefit from Sun's marketing of JDS)

What I consider a problem with marketing KDE is that KDE is not a complete 
solution. KDE in itself doesn't compete with JDS, MacOS X or MS Windows, the 
combination KDE+Linux does (and there is also KDE+FreeBSD, which tends to add 
extra complication). Gnome faces a similar problem.

Cheers,
Waldo
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