Hi,
On 2005-12-05, at 16:44 , GB224140 wrote:
I notice your web site has download rate statistics but do have or
know where I can find download rate statistics by country, as we
are looking at open source software download rates for software for
open office in developing countries especially to include in a
white paper on open source
software on the desktop.
It's pretty hard to track it by country. We can look at the
organisation report for any week, and that will tell us the top 20
organisations, like aol.com, or wanadoo.fr, but for the current week
fully 55.3 percent are not listed. And that's pretty typical.
It gets more complicated. Many of the builds for developing nations,
e.g., India, Brazil, as well as developed countries, list their
download servers locally, or at least they are addressed locally:
visitors do not go thru OOo to those sites, so we can't track them.
This skews the data considerably. For instance, Brazil has reported
that over 1 million people use OOo and reports to us amazingly heavy
downloads. But the data are not reflected in the official stats as
they are delivered episodically and irregularly. Same with a lot of
the Indic downloads. And so on. And this does not even take into
consideration p2p or cdrom distribution, which might dominate in
developing nations.
What you can do, I urge, is contact the Brazilian group directly to
get a sense of downloads; also, as Charles suggested, the NLC
groups. I wish I had the data but I don't. My guess is that OOo
downloads would be much, much higher than now and that developing
nations would represent a far higher portion of them.
I'd also contact Rishab Ghosh, of Maastricht. Let me know if you need
his email.
Best,
Louis
Many Thanks
Lloyd Cooke
Nottingham Trent University
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