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On Sunday 20 November 2005 07:51, Mihnea Capraru wrote:
> Maybe it would be helpful to know how they came into
> using KDE. Especially interesting would be knowing how
> many times the initiative stemmed from IT employees
> (or perhaps even end users, although that's probably a
> rare occurance).
>
> This is because I hedge the temptative hypothesis that
> the enterprise might be penetrated 'from within' - the

unlike the server which only IT people really see, the desktop is very hard=
=20
(e.g. next to impossible) to replace w/out people noticing. this makes it=20
amazingly difficult to use the backdoor, from within approach that worked s=
o=20
well for open source server solutions.

and to be honest, i'm not interested in "the enterprise". i'm interested in=
=20
the SME market. others are looking after the enterprise (where adoption=20
happens to be very slow), so i'm looking at an unaddressed market segment.

> Another interesting thing to do would be providing a
> 'secondary use' input field. Otherwise valuable
> information could get obscured by the fact that
> certain uses could be frequent within enterprises, but
> rarely primary uses.

good point. i'll add that.

> How will the survey get to the relevant survey takers?
> (Or is this thread supposed to only focus on the
> content, not delivery?)

content. i have a budding strategy for delivery, and it's not "announce it =
on=20
websites online". =3D)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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