On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:48 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. >
My data says that in the U.S., 16.1% of surveyed internet users use OpenOffice either "sometimes" or "regularly". For the same question 5.7% use LibreOffice. So roughly speaking open source office suites have 20% market share. This is probably centered in home/student/personal use. I'd expect that usage is lower than that in businesses. > 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. > We already do that on pages like this: http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_gov.html But the general issue is that a government that is not aware of OpenOffice will not find *anything* that we have on our website. You need to get material to where they are reading. Regards, -Rob > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
