Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any official/reliable stat on the OOo users vs users of
> other office suites? Just want to know the market share of OOo
> (preferably with geo location) so as to know the distribution across
> the world.
>
> Thanks
>
> ----------------------
That is a stat that a lot of us would like to know however there a few
issues with trying to track this down, up to and including the fact that
anyone can copy it and pass it around.
OOo is available from a number of sources
1. From OOo servers and Mirrors obviously. This source gives us a
single reliable statistic: to this point OOo has been downloaded
about 70 million times
2. Most Linux distributions come packaged with OOo unfortunately
there is no real record of how many times this has happened
because...well it's free openesource software and it was probably
copied and passed on.
3. Magazine CDs , lot's of those, again no reliable numbers because
probably not everyone with a cd installed it.
4. From a mate, or a mates mate, or a LUG....
Now there was a survey that was done some time ago that came up with
some figures about the downloaded copies. On average a single user
downloads OOo six times. So that means around 12 million people have
downloaded OOo from the servers. It was also discovered that this same
"average" user copied and passed it on 9 times or that may have been to
9 different people. So, let's assume that it was the latter, we can
calculate that OOo copies from the servers may have ended up on over 100
million computers.
Maybe....
Which just goes to prove that your guess is as good as mine...
Or Gartners... which said 15% worldwide, but that was last year and any
statistic that old in this game is certainly not reliable.
All you can say reliably is that OOo's market share is a hell of a lot
more than MSO12. and growing exponentially :)
Not a lot of help I know, but that is the nature of OpenSource... It's
slippery like an eel and as the opposition is discovering, equally
difficult to catch.
Cheers
Yo
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