--- title: Sun pulls ahead of IBM in the dopplr challenge date: 2007-10-23T16:26:58Z modified: 2007-10-23T16:26:58Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/sun-pulls-ahead-of-ibm-in-the-dopplr-challenge/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1340 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-10-23T16:26:58Z tags: - Uncategorized --- Since we began the [](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/10/18/now-its-a-game-an-ibm-vs-sun-game-dopplr-meets-cagefightr/)[competition](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/10/18/if-you-work-at-ibm-and-travel-a-lot-then-sign-up-for-the-dopplr-service/), Sun’s [Dopplr](http://blog.dopplr.com/) user base has nearly doubled, and it has pulled ahead of IBM as more engaged [Dopplr100](http://www.dopplr.com/100) company. Matt Biddulph, Dopplr CTO, is now nearly ready to put his part of the puzzle into production. That is – people that originally joined the service with accounts other than their corporate email accounts will now be able to merge the two. And by the way- you don’t need to use the corporate account – its just there to check your id. I actually find it quite interesting, and a rather good story, that a game has led Matt to make a commitment to add a new feature that had previously been on the back-burner. I think you’ll find that dopplr is not using Waterfall methods… Four guys- total football. Design, develop, grab stuff, tie it together, swap roles, rinse and repeat. [![SlideShare](http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/logo_embd.png) ](http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed) | [View](http://www.slideshare.net/mattb/coding-on-the-shoulders-of-giants "View 'Coding on the Shoulders of Giants' on SlideShare") | [Upload your own](http://www.slideshare.net/upload) One irony is that some people from Sun have contacted me in the back channel to complain that IBM’s far bigger user base gives it an unfair advantage. Lucky you don’t take such a defeatists approach in the market in general. Its about being the smartest, the most engaged, the most capable, rather than the biggest, isn’t it? And like I say, we’re not seeing much change at IBM at this point. Sun is looking the likely winner of the inaugural monkchips-initiated dopplr user base challenge. Matt puts it rather [more diplomatically](http://blog.dopplr.com/index.php/2007/10/19/redmonk-puts-out-the-dopplr-call-to-ibm-and-sun/) than me: > James wants to know which of these two global companies is most open to using new web technology to improve their business travel.