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Market Analysis

We did a simple segmentation, or ``market analysis'' of the OO community to identify concerns or drivers:

  1. Managers - concerned with $, time to market, evidence, management models, etc.
  2. Methodologists - concerned with scaling, principles, ``meta issues''
  3. Technologists - In general, people interested in patterns and frameworks are application programmers, though the reverse is not true. Some of the methodologists are also interested in patterns and frameworks, but most of the work in that area has come from technologists who build systems.

    1. Patterners - concerned with describing informal reusable models, documents

    2. Frameworkers - abstracting designs as concrete systems via evolutionary prototyping
    3. Application programmers (Smalltalk, C++, Eiffel ... VB) concerned with code, concrete engineering artifacts, quick learning, prototyping, etc. They need and ``instant on'' solution.


Larry Latour
Wed Sep 20 16:13:18 EDT 1995