On 10 October 2013 21:21, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 10 October 2013 16:33, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2013-10-10, at 10:01 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> No, this is not a duplicate message. >>>> >>>> We hit another new download record yesterday, of 241,987 downloads, >>>> beating the record previously set on Monday of 233,070 downloads. >>>> >>>> -Rob >>> >>> This is impressive. Add these numbers to those also generated by >>> LibreOffice and other versions of OpenOffice, and we can start thinking >>> again of a seriously large installed base of ODF editors, most of which are >>> open source. >> >> Indeed very impressive. Do we have any ideas how the other openoffice >> versions are doing in terms of download ? if they publish their >> numbers we could think about a blog post telling about the total >> number, that must be impressive. >> > > Some of them did publish download numbers, but stopped doing so after > AOO 3.4.0 was released and we started publishing our numbers. > > But it is hard to come up with apples-to-apples comparisons. For > example, Linux users get LO with their distro. They don't download. > LO has been available for 3 years, but AOO for only 18 months. We're > counting only full installs, LO is counting -- well, we really don't > know. The products have different update cycles, so it is hard to > convert downloads into users. (If you have many small releases then > each user will generate several downloads). Differences like this > make it hard to compare the two. > > But one approach is to look at Windows downloads from 3rd party > websites, like download.com. This avoids all of the above problems. > If you look there you see that in the last week AOO has been > downloaded 21,850 times, and LibreOffice 2,664 times. > > But from the perspective of ODF editors, Microsoft has pretty good ODF > support now as well, so the true number of ODF editor installs is > probably near 1 billion now.
Please bear in mind I was not trying to battle LO and AOO who has the most downloads. I was simply asking if we can come up with a somewhat reliable figure how many have downloaded a free "office" version against how many have paid for the version. I am still thinking about the issue about saving money, which I think is high on many goverment/departmental lists right now. Something we can use to make a slight push in direction of free software independent of branding. rgds jan I. > > -Rob > >> rgds >> jan I. >> >>> >>> louis >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
