I thought the article explained exactly how it was calculated: < https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/21_million_per_day>. There's no need to speculate.
There are two base figures: (1) the average number of AOO full-install downloads per day and (2) an estimated average price for a permanent Microsoft Office desktop license. Rob used $150 US which is the price for Office 2013 Home and Student. That includes service packs, etc., but not upgrades to later versions of Microsoft Office. For Office 365/2013 there is a lower price -- the student price for Office 365 rental is a single $79 for a four-year "lease", which includes any updates to the desktop products in that time. The $99/year Office 365 Home Premium (one rental good for noncommercial use on up to 5 machines) is another option, including not only the Office 2013 versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, but Outlook, Access, Publisher, and OneNote (and their updates and upgrades for as long as the rental continues). Since it is perhaps personal use that is the most price-sensitive case, assuming that one download avoids a $100-$150 expense is probably not far off for estimation purposes. LibreOffice can use the same logic that Apache OpenOffice did. -----Original Message----- From: Charles-H. Schulz [mailto:charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 09:21 To: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Cc: LibreO - Users Global; LibreO - Discuss Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] How did AOO figure it was worth $21 Million dollars a day or $7 billion per year? Hello Tim, I suspect they multiply the standard package price of MS Office and multiply that by their numbers of stated downloads, then divide it by 365. At least that's how I would do it. best, Charles. Le mardi 19 février 2013 à 12:15 -0500, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit : > How did AOO figure out how much their version of OOo was worth per day > to users? > > I cannot figure out any way. Of course it makes great Marketing Copy. > We are giving our users some much product value, we must be the better > product. FUD or what? > > --------------------------------------- > > http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/apache-openoffice-valued-at-21m-per-day > > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache OpenOffice > has a value of $21 million a day. > > ASF officials said Apache OpenOffice has averaged 131,455 downloads per > day since its 3.4 release last May. That represents an average value to > the public of $21 million per day or $7.61 billion per year, ASF said. > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
