Comments on: Network management’s downward trend?

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:01:33 +0000

@zoly: Thanks for dropping by. Whilst I agree that procuring a network management tool from the equipment supplier is a great idea it seems unlikely that the numbers of people using that research method would greatly increase since 2004?

>What I read out of it ? People don’t use search engines that much to find a network management tool…

They do, they just don’t appear to do so on google quite as much as they used to. I don’t see them using some other search engine either. Surely, the search share stats would show a significant movement away from Google.

By: zoly

zoly — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:21 +0000

I did not use google to find this page, but I don’t think there is a migration to other search engines. If somebody looks for a network management tool they will probably try out more than one search engine.

New networks are built every day, the market is growing, however if you build a wimax network you will not look on google for management tools for it. Whoever provides you the equipment will probably recommend you a management tool that works best with your hardware.

What I read out of it ? People don’t use search engines that much to find a network management tool…

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:10:11 +0000

@Robert: I suppose that could have some bearing on it. The last time I looked Google’s market share was holding up quite well, if not growing a little. Though, aggregate market share doesn’t mean that they can’t be losing a specific section of their audience. Are IT people abandoning Google?

By: Robert aronsson

Robert aronsson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:53:15 +0000

Can it be so simple that google use to “own” the sys admin market and more and more searches are done trough other search engines….I find myself using other search engines more and more frequently, it can also explain