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After the shock that 50% of CCP4 downloads are for Windoze, we have
checked the statistics for SHELX downloads, which averaged over the last
few months about 10 per day for the .tgz files each containing all the
binaries for a particular OS and about 2 per day for the .tgz file of
all the sources. Ignoring the sources, which would be needed for other
OSes but may include e.g. Linux users who compile just for the fun of
it, the statistics are:
Linux 47%, Windowe 32% and MacOSX(G4/G5) 21%.
I had expected a higher percentage of Windows for SHELX than for CCP4
because I thought that Windows tends to be more common for small
molecule work, but maybe this is not the case. I also suspect that some
of the Windows downloads of both CCP4 and SHELX are accounted for by
people who use a real operating system for serious computing but like to
have the programs on laptops that they use for powerpoint presentations
just in case they need to calculate something 'on the fly'.
George
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Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS
Dept. Structural Chemistry,
University of Goettingen,
Tammannstr. 4,
D37077 Goettingen, Germany
Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068
Fax. +49-551-39-2582
