Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:55:22AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> With no disrespect to PostgreSQL, MySQL has 100x our downloads and
> installations...

Just for the hell of it I looked at the popcon stats for debian
installs (see below). It tells me the following:

- Something like half the people who install mysql-server (any version)
never use it. People who install PostgreSQL are (slightly) more likely
to actually use it.

- For mysql, users of the client are approximatly twice the amount that
use the server. For postgres, the client and server count is about the
same. This one is curious, don't know what to make of it.

- when it comes to client libs, a lot of people have them installed
(presumably linked to various apps) but they don't apparently connect
anywhere with them.

Now, this is not exactly a represenative sample and statistical errors
abound, and we're not counting Windows installations but 100x seems
like an exaggeration to me... :)

Have a nice day,

#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
# regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
# information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer)
183 libmysqlclient12 4483 3026 663 421 373 (Christian Hammers)
266 mysql-client 2803 2188 216 172 227 (Christian Hammers)
453 libpq3 3710 1266 1065 231 1148 (Martin Pitt)
478 mysql-server 2342 1171 529 490 152 (Christian Hammers)
553 libmysqlclient14 2437 954 145 332 1006 (Christian Hammers)
583 mysql-client-4.1 1111 886 21 204 0 (Christian Hammers)
661 postgresql-client 1709 729 372 31 577 (Martin Pitt)
662 postgresql 1286 728 132 14 412 (Martin Pitt)
883 mysql-server-4.1 883 490 84 309 0 (Christian Hammers)
1202 postgresql-7.4 468 308 37 123 0 (Martin Pitt)
1531 libmysqlclient10 3277 214 518 48 2497 (Steve Langasek)
2253 postgresql-client-8.0 185 110 16 59 0 (Martin Pitt)
2261 postgresql-8.0 172 109 17 46 0 (Martin Pitt)
2332 mysql-client-5.0 120 102 1 17 0 (Christian Hammers)
2757 mysql-server-5.0 113 77 3 33 0 (Christian Hammers)

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