niches

InformationWeek: "There's little question that Linux on laptops (and on PCs in general) is no longer nearly as complicated or painful as it used to be.

The new problem is whether notebook manufacturers are going to readily offer Linux to consumers -- both regular folks on the street and corporate clients -- outside of designated niches."

As we all know, there lots of distros out there that excel in different areas and niches. Ubuntu is great for beginners and desktop use, Red Hat/SuSE for the corporate types, Gentoo for control freaks (don’t get me wrong, Gentoo’s great…) and so forth.

And then there are the distros that make us Linux affcionados bow our heads in shame.

Niche marketing with SEO isn’t quite self explanatory - so here’s a simple overview. A niche is simply a product category that people are looking for and that doesn’t have overwhelming competition on the supply side of the demand/supply equation.The ideal niche is one that has great demand and little or no supply available.

Such niches are rare.