Bergen, Månen

O’Reilly Radar, bloggen til et av verdens største databok selskaper har en serie pÃ¥ fire poster hvor de gÃ¥r gjennom trender i databok-bransjen, 1, 2, 3 og 4. Databøker har lenge vært et av mine mest typiske impulskjøp, derfor tok jeg en ekstra kikk pÃ¥ disse postene. Kommer kanskje ikke til Ã¥ sette fyr pÃ¥ samtalen rundt bordet i et middagsselskap, men noen detaljer verdt Ã¥ nevne, avhengig av hvor tregt praten gÃ¥r, deriblant:

“In the first quarter of 2006, new interest in web development associated with Web 2.0 and strong performance of books on digital media applications like Photoshop helped to drive the market. In the first quarter of 2007, we hoped that the Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 releases would cause a similar sharp increase in our trend lines. That has not materialized, and in fact, you could say that Microsoft’s new releases have not lived up to expectations yet, at least for book sales. I did say “yet” because there are signs that Vista is starting to pick up steam. But the fact is that without a significant bump from Vista and related Office products, the 2007 market has not performed at the 2006 level. I find it very interesting that the web and digital media had more of a market effect in 2006 than a huge, highly anticipated release of a new version of the world’s most used consumer operating system and its office productivity suite has in 2007. It’s one more sign of the waning of Microsoft’s once fearsome market power.” (min utheving), les orginal.