X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BF514B2A83 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:57:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45301-03 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:57:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC6E14B2A81 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:57:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7C3vZ96024115; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:57:35 -0400 (EDT) To: Josh Berkus Cc: Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release In-reply-to: <200408112031.22886.josh@agliodbs.com> References: <200408120328.i7C3Sx414629@candle.pha.pa.us> <200408112031.22886.josh@agliodbs.com> Comments: In-reply-to Josh Berkus message dated "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:31:22 -0700" Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:57:35 -0400 Message-ID: <24114.1092283055@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200408/95 X-Sequence-Number: 4870 Josh Berkus writes: > Bruce, >> The issue is how hard is it to get the information, and how useful is it >> to us. It is pretty hard to get, and if we knew a number, what would we >> do with it that would help PostgreSQL? Not much, I think. > Well, it's a moot point, I think, since we can't get it. But this is > something which reporters ask me for all the time. Well, sure they ask that, because they don't understand what open source is. View it as an opportunity to educate them. Commercial software companies know exactly how many licenses they've sold, so (discounting pirates) they have a good idea how many users are out there. The Postgres project does not control distribution of our software and so we have no reasonable way to measure the number of users. From our perspective this is not a problem. regards, tom lane