Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:3098486.Q0BQYtfD2I@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 25 February 2007 07:05 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 24 February 2007 09:43 \__
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 24 February 2007 07:48 \__
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000
>>>>>>> businesses
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps
>>>>>>>| has already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000
>>>>>>>| small to medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the
>>>>>>>| largest companies in the world, according to the search
>>>>>>>| leader's enterprise product boss.
>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If google apps have managed 100,000 SMEs, how many are using Open
>>>>>> Office, I wonder?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nobody knows. It's open source and it doesn't phone home. All we
>>>>> have are some download counters from last year.
>>>>>
>>>>> 100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
>>>>
>>>> Um, interesting - 100 downloads of OpenOffice for every user of
>>>> Google Apps. There should be a massive potential for support
>>>> there, too.
>>>>
>>>> <snip Mr Phipps>
>>>
>>> This does not include all the people who get OpenOffice in the form
>>> of a CD-ROM or even a USB pen (e.g. 175,000 French students). That's
>>> why download count says too little and only paid-for market surveys
>>> is what you're left with. With the rise of ODF, the attraction of
>>> OpenOffice and other ODF-friendly software will soar. IBM is in this
>>> game too (Lotus)... not just Google, KDE, Abiword... Corel and
>>> Novell have Microsoft grabbing them by the balls, so they also
>>> intend to offer an OOXML option (they'll never manage to get this
>>> replicated.... oops... I mean implemented).
>>>
>>
>> As OpenOffice is included with Debian, then a count of the number of
>> Debian downloads would also be of interest, I suppose. But as you
>> say, trying to count installations of free software is, in the end, a
>> fruitless activity.
>
> Let's not rely on the Linux Counter either. Perhaps there are only a
> hundred thousand of us.... *eyes roll* while Canonical gauges
> repository requests from more than 8 million Ubuntu PCs... and that's
> just the ones that are connected to the Web and install additional
> stuff. One distribution among many.
>
Canonical rely on unique IP addresses to count the number of users.
Which is so innacurate as to be useless. Anyone with a dynamic IP from
their ISP gets counted multiple times and any machines behind a NAT
firewall/router will only get counted once.
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