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Re: [News] Red Hat See 450% Increase in Partner Base

  • Subject: Re: [News] Red Hat See 450% Increase in Partner Base
  • From: "Mathew P." <Mathew@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:45:51 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: unorganized
  • References: <3686340.mAkXvAMrFc@schestowitz.com> <lokn38l5xiue.dlg@funkenbusch.com>
  • User-agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux)
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1097540
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On 2006-04-03, Erik Funkenbusch spake thusly:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:20:55 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>         RED HAT INCREASING OPEN SOURCE MOMENTUM
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Today, Red Hat announced significant channel growth for its Advanced
>>| Partner Programme in Europe achieving a 450% increase in its partner
>>| base since the programme launched in June, 2004. 
>> `----
>> 
>>                         http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2179
>
> So, they now have 5.5 partners, when they had 1? or maybe it's 11 when they
> had 2?  That number is way too "even" for it to have any large statistics
> behind it.

This from the king of pro microsoft statistical manipulation. Mark Twain
said "there are three kinds of lies in this world; Lies, damn lies, and
statistics".

regards,

Mathew



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