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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23:23 +0200
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Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 18:06 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> Oh. Then there isn't any way to get a reasonably accurate download count?
These download counts would be completely random anyway. Most people get
their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor. (Just look how often someone
asks a question about PostgreSQL 7.2.1; these are the people stuck on Debian
"stable".) And even they are unable to count the downloads, because they
have mirrors, and people mirror the mirrors, and put mirrors on their
laptops.
Additionally, PostgreSQL is in or near the default installation in many
distributions, so even if you knew the install count, you don't know anything
about who actually uses it.
If you want some amusing (nonabsolute) usage statistics, I recommend
<http://popcon.debian.org/;.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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