On 25/08/2009, at 10:25 AM, Karl Horak wrote:
Dylan,
I've been looking for the silver bullet that will slay the werewolf
of web
statistics for several years, both for Plone and in my day-job.
Alas, I
don't have a simple mechanism for pulling the answers you want (and
the
community needs) out of the aether. I've gone on at some length
over at
http://plonemetrics.blogspot.com/2009/08/meaningful-stats.html
PloneMetrics
this morning.
Perhaps the best thing to do is have a Marketing Monday. Divvy up
Plone.net
and send individual contact e-mails out with a questionnaire. When/
if the
results roll in, manually accumulate them. Obviously, when it comes
to
financial matters of Plone companies, a great deal of
confidentiality will
be required.
Thanks. I read your blog post with interest.
Gathering up total plone revenue would be interesting but also a lot
of effort. It also doesn't count all the work done by resource
internal to a company which I suspect is substantial.
Perhaps effort is better put into call back home type functionality in
plone (which has been discussed before) to gather better install base
stats. It would be very interesting to gather user counts on as many
plone sites as possible, and times them by the average sharepoint per
user license fee and give plone a sharepoint equivalent revenue
figure. Someone is probably going to tell me that such suspect
statistics will do the reputation of Plone more harm than good but it
doesn't sound worse than the top 3% of open source projects figure we
use a lot which is pretty meaningless.
I'm just trying to come at this from the point of view of how business
decision makers judge the worth of Plone if they aren;t in front of a
seller such as us. Plone is a 300M USD or 600M USD etc business
equivalent is simple enough to understand.
Maybe a marketing sprint would be worthwhile. Anyone care to visit
ABQ this
season?
I'm pretty sure there will be one at the Plone conference but I have
yet to hear any annoucement.
Karl
Dylan Jay wrote:
...But is it possible, even without Plone being one company?
For instance could an independent auditor collect all "plone revenue"
figures from all registered integrators for the purposes of created
an
amalgamated figure?
How would work done with an organisation such as a university be
valued?
Instead is it possible to estimate from stats we currently have?
Are there any stats about Plone's success that are really meaningful?
Dylan Jay, Plone Solutions Manager
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