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. -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
