Am 04/18/2014 05:16 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alexandro Colorado<[email protected]> wrote:
Havent read the article yet, but what was the percentage of Linux downloads
in OpenOffice.org? And how does Apache OpenOffice Linux downloads compared
to this one?
I have no idea what the download distribution was with OOo. But I do
know that since AOO 3.4, so for the past two years, the percentages
for Windows, Mac and Linux have remained the same.
I also have no number anymore in mind after 3-4 years. However, I
remember it was slightly higher like 7% or so.
Bu that doesn't matter with Windows at ~90% and the remining counts for Mac.
Also from a Marketing perspective we should enhance the download to a
distro-specific, like Apache OpenOffice for Ubuntu and Apache OpenOffice
for Fedora, etc.
Even if you could argue, we hae a .deb and a .rpm, it makes the user more
secure that his download will work with Ubuntu 14.x
An interesting idea. Could expand it to "Apache OpenOffice for
Windows 8", etc. It confirms that yes, we know what platform you are
running and yes, the download we're giving you is compatible.
Of course we can change the wording on the download webpage. But I think
this wouldn't change much as long as we don't adapt the software itself
to fit better to the Linux distros - starting from the installation
within the distro's repos.
Marcus
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apache-OpenOffice-Downloaded-More-than-100-Million-Times-But-Not-on-Linux-438293.shtml
I'd like to double check my logic here.
What fraction of our downloads would you expect Linux to be?
A niche open source application might see different results than one
that had mainstream adoption. That is the expectation. If your
appeal is mainly to the open source "insiders" then you will see a
higher proportion of Linux downloads. If your user base reflects the
overall desktop market, then your downloads will reflect this as well.
We've seen, since Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0, that Linux users comprise
1.8% of our downloads.
The latest Netcraft survey of Desktop OS usage puts Linux as 1.49%. [1]
So, our Linux desktop usage is slightly more than we'd expect, from a
widespread adoption perspective, but only slightly.
So what am I missing here? Why would anyone expect anything other
than the obvious trend, that the most-user operating systems would
also be most used by OpenOffice users?
-Rob
[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/
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