| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Lance Obermeyer" <LObermey(at)pervasive(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, "Robert Bernier" <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: Time to start the PR machine |
| Date: | 2005-08-30 22:46:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200508310046.31429.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> Oh, so we can, with a reasonably straight face, say something like
> this. "This 1m downloads over the last six months compares to the
> last month of 7.4, which had <x> downloads.
If we had historical logs, which I gather we might not, we could make
claims that a certain release was downloaded N times more often than
another one, which would be an interesting number. But giving out
absolute numbers is just laughable, considering the mirror network, the
redistributors, their mirror networks, and a host of other factors that
make the absolute download numbers from the primary FTP server
completely out of proportion with reality. I would guess that we have
at least 100 times more installations than downloads from the primary
FTP server, factoring out that not every download leads to a unique
installation.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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