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The Linux roadmapThe Linux roadmapPosted Dec 9, 2004 8:00 UTC (Thu) by pascal.martin (guest, #2995)Parent article: The Linux roadmap
I would think this represents a market opportunity for LWN: sell a newletter for IS professionals that analyzes the current trends among kernel developpers and estimate completion times, future kernel features, etc..
Basically this would be an expanded variant of the kernel development page, for an additional subscription fee.
After all IBM pundits have made tons of money for years "predicting" future IBM products, and current Microsoft pundits make as much money predicting how late will Microsoft products be released (sometime the same pundits..:).
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The Linux roadmap by LWN Posted Dec 9, 2004 8:59 UTC (Thu) by simon_kitching (guest, #4874) [Link] This was my first thought too. Analysing current and future Linux features is what LWN already does (and does very well). Just repackage the contents in Microsoft Word format for CEOs and put a whopping big price tag on it :-)
The Linux roadmap Posted Dec 10, 2004 7:46 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] I had the same idea.Maybe not only the kernel, but Linux in general. Alex
The Linux roadmap Posted Dec 10, 2004 18:41 UTC (Fri) by sebastian (subscriber, #4910) [Link] Yeap, I agree, too. This sounds like a potential marketing opportunity.
The roadmay concept does include the desire to control or regulate the outcome...so from that standpoint it is probably a bad idea to use the roadmap terminology. I think one of the UK linux mags does a kernel trends column - which is very much like the lwn kernel pages. Expand that with some techno mumbo jumbo about the advantages of specific technologies, and their likelihood of inclusion into the mainline kernel, and you have a $1M service.
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