Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "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 07:55:01
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7879@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >> 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 ...

But do you download it through the website? AFAIK, direct downloads from
the mirrors are *not* included in the count above - it's just the
clickthrough counts on the website..

//Magnus

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