This remind me of a recent audio-webcast by osviews where most of the gartner numbers were fundamentally wrong. As they label market share versus server installs.
http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1661&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Lider of OpenOffice.org Espaņol http://es.openoffice.org/ Quoting Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i want some market details with respect to Open office. If somebody > > can share the numbers, i will be happy, if not if somebody can direct > > me to a page where i can extract from. i have to pitch with an angel > > with respect to my product and substantiate that it is worthy of us to > > write an add-in into Open office on Linux. > > i don't think we can provide much data. probably the best source is > http://stats.openoffice.org/index.html > > you may have luck asking those questions to the marketing project > http://marketing.openoffice.org > > > 1. How may open office users are there till date? > > this is impossible to estimate, considering there are many source to > obtain OOo exepting download: > - OOo is included on CD with some computer magazines; > - OOo in included in almost all Linux distributions; > - OOo is sold on CD by various 3-rd parties; > - OOo is preinstalled by some PC sellers, charities etc. > > also, one download or CD sold should not be mapped to one user, because > it can be installed on an unlimited number of computers. > > > 2. How many are Windows based and Linux based? > > counting the downloads, Windows has a bigger percentage compared with > Linux, but this ignore the fact that most Linux users already have OOo > installed as default by their distribution and don't have any need to > download it, or may prefer to obtain it (upgrade) from distro specific > channels (apt-get, yum) > > > 3. How many are Enterprise customers who have adopted Open office and > > How many are SME's and How many are Individuals? > > you may want to add here governments, they are a big 'customer', one > recent example is: > http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=com&msgNo=816 > > > 4. Which all verticals do these enterprise and SME customers belong? > > Life sciences, manufacturing, Financials institutions and Hightech? > > > > Similary can somebody share with me some data on Linux and Open platform > > > > 1. How many enterprises and SME have adopted Linux and open platform > > for their back office operations? > > 2. How many enterprises and SME's have adopted linux as desktops? > > 3. Why do customers predominatly use linux and open platform? > > the same can be argued as for OOo data. > > > thank you all in advance... please help me in getting some numbers.. i > > can't afford these market research reports. > > i believe neither OOo can't afford such a study, which, as i argued > above, will have probably many flaws. > > -- > nicu > my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
