[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Download Statistics ?

[Karyn Ritter]

Claire Giordano wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
Just my $.02... I agree that we should only publish the numbers we can 
track and state that they are a subset. Should we also provide a pointer 
to the download numbers the mirrors publish?

> 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.
> 
We directed him to get his download statistics from SDLC, and I'm sure 
that is what he did.

- Karyn