Ubuntu Wildfire

[Anthony David]

On 17/05/2005, at 12:59 AM, Shawn Christopher wrote:

> One thing that I have seen that SpreadFirefox does that we (the Ubuntu 
> community) doesn't is display our download numbers. I know this isn't 
> really too viable because you can download...burn...and share. However 
> I think that would help "if anything" to identify the numbers of users 
> we may have.
>
> The reason I bring this up is because IBM recently decided that they 
> are going to back their employees (all 330,000 of them) on the use of 
> Firefox. One of the phrases that they used was "Can 52 Million users 
> be wrong" however we are familiar that downloads does not equal users. 
> However with such a large download that can help align the 
> download/user basis, at least on a minimal level (people aren't going 
> to download over and over again they'll use a CD which means a 
> infinity:1 ratio) so this will show AT LEAST how many users there may 
> be.
>
> I'd love to prompt the company I work for to start creating software 
> for Linux however the argument they continously make is there is no 
> userbase. While compareable to Windows sadly this is true however if 
> everyone continues to think this way...well then how can we get

Not so sure about your assumption on the server side.

http://www.butlergroup.com/reports/serveros/mansum.asp

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3332011

On the desktop side, I assume we are still at the "chicken and egg 
scenario" with respect to apps deployment.


> anywhere with this? Anyone have any thoughts about this or know how I 
> can escallate this to someone at Cannonical?
>
> Shawn
>
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