[advocacy-discuss] Updated OpenSolaris.org metrics

[Patrick Finch]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
>> If nothing else, I suspect that a lot of page visits from Sun offices  
>> around the world will show up as coming from the US...
> 
> Why? Is that because of the use of US proxies? In Japan, I use proxies 
> from Japan and Singapore from the office, so I would expect that my web 
> traffic would be counted as coming from Asia, not the US. Right? I'm no 
> expert here, though. :)
> 
> Also, I notice that the portal traffic is rapidly increasing in Spain 
> and Japan. I'm not sure how many employees we have in Spain, but I do 
> know that the non-Sun community is very strong there (open source in 
> general and OpenSolaris specifically). And although we have a lot of 
> employees in Japan, very few of them are involved in OpenSolaris. But 
> the market here for Solaris is very big (the largest in Asia and the 
> second largest in the world).


Related to that, I saw a very high figure for people hitting 
OpenSolaris.com from Spain.  I think it was the second highest country 
after the US in the week OpenSolaris.com was launched.  Do we have any 
idea what is causing that?

Patrick