Greetings Mirjam, On 3/9/07, Mirjam Wäckerlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> recently, Mark Shuttleworth was asked in an interview about the > numbers of users of ubuntu and he estimated this to be about 8 million > [1]. Media and marketing people love these sort of statistics. One project which is trying to answer this question (and should be promoted more) is http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net Not the 8 million, but still a sizable number of people have registered. > Now, several people are asking for the sources of this number. > Do we have any authentic statistics like > * Number of downloads > * Stats for the repositories > * Shipit stats These are all good for 'trends' (eg. downloads are up) but I have recently installed Ubuntu on 3 machines, but only downloaded 1 CD.. what I think we can be confident of is that 'every download' will generate at least 1 install. > I think it would be a big advantage to have such stats because we > could use these numbers for marketing (e.g. included in the UWN). see point 1. > > Regards, > > Mirjam > > > [1] > http://redherring.com/article.aspx?a=20497 > Q: What about growth in adoption rates, any kind of numbers that you > can give me? > A: We know now that there are probably at least 8 million [Ubuntu] users. > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
