Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jonathan Gennick <jgennick(at)oreilly(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL
Date: 2005-08-11 00:41:10
Message-ID: 20050810214025.V1002@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>>
>> If your average spend on books per download of PostgreSQL is about 6
>> cents, I think there's something wrong somewhere. [775,000 downloads
>> this year]
>
> Yes but how many of those downloads turned into someone actually using the
> software? Probably 5%. How many of those downloads are from people
> who already use the software? I have downloaded it myself probably 30 times
> this year.

Definitely concur with that, as I know I've downloaded several hundred
copies between reinstalling computers, upgrading postgresql versions, etc
...

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