Hi,
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I have some associates at the analyst firms like IDC and Giga, I don'tknow that they're tracking OOo vs. the others but they might be. I'd
be happy to check, Louis, if you think that might be interesting.
Would you please? We always do think of this and do constantly wonder
exactly who our users are--and how many. We have debated solutions as
Adam hinted--widgets that call home upon downloading--but we have not,
for no compelling reasons, implemented them. (rant/ Once, we thought
they would be read as hostile to the freedom of OSS. I don't think so;
or if so, that's a poor understanding of the OSS "freedom." And do
people complain about it when they are sent to Mozilla's pages? /rant)
:-) ... Indeed such an information source would be very useful. It also seems that an official survey had been done for 2003-2004 around Asia by a company whose name I can't remember. The survey had shown that OpenOffice.org was running on 14% of Asian corporate desktops. (Note: the OOo derivatives were not mentionned). We could also ask this company.
Best,
Charles.
What would be interesting is to do random surveys, perhaps, of retail
stores where MS O is sold and see if there is a decline in purchases
around the time of a major/minor release. Survey companies could also
do standard telephone/web surveys from logical sites, if that is
reasonable.
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