[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Download Statistics ?

[Claire Giordano]

I don't want to distribute download numbers that are potentially very 
misleading.  I'd rather not share download #s all if they're not complete and if 
we don't know if they represent 10% or 90% of the actual number of downloads.

Derek - do you agree with Simon's assessment below?  Since you were proposing to 
share download numbers (and had provided them last week to Laura), I'm wondering 
if you know of some magical way to track downloads from mirrors and BT?  Do you?

Patrick - once Derek has responded, please let us know what you recommend we do.

Cheers,
Claire

p.s.  Just saw email from Tom Gryder complimenting on a great report about 
OpenSolaris download statistics.  Who provided that, and when?  I just searched 
my mail for downloads in the topic and glanced thru emails from Derek and Karyn 
and didn't find it.  I'm sure it's there, but would be much obliged if you could 
forward a copy?  And, we need to figure out who in engineering Patrick should 
confer with on stats - don't want our teams to be sending out conflicting info.

Simon Phipps wrote:
> We can know our own download stats - what we can't know is the download 
> rates from the mirrors and via BT. Hence any statement we make has to 
> say something like "only including downloads direct from os.org - source 
> is available for open distribution". Hence my caution about absolute 
> statements.
> 
> S.
> 
> 
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 17:51, Claire Giordano wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to understand how we can track these numbers as well.  I 
>> thought that Simon had said that it was not possible to track the 
>> downloads given the use of BitTorrent...
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> Derek Cicero wrote:
>>
>>> Sean O'Neill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anywhere on this site to see download satistics ?
>>>
>>> Not yet. I will try and put something together this week.
>>> Derek
>>>
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