Lauren, Unfortunately this is a bit of a complicated question to answer directly, but I can share some information that might give you a feel for the rate of adoption.
First, the source code is distributed via a mirroring system maintained by volunteer organizations willing to help the ASF with distribution. The source code downloads are *not* tracked by anyone, so I do not have any method of answering on this front. Second, obviously the source code is also maintained within our git repositories. As with the official source code bundles, we have no method of tracking how many copies of this repository exist. Third, we obviously have no way of accounting for the commercial software packages based on Apache CloudStack (Citrix CloudPlatform, Trend Micro's TCloud distribution, and others). What we do have, is a community provided repository for pre-compiled linux packages (DEB and RPM) of Apache CloudStack. This is likely the primary method of installation of the Apache CloudStack software (outside of commercial distributions). In July of 2013, one of our community members did a quick analysis of the number of *unique* IP addresses that downloaded packages from this location. In the 10 months, we had 18,000 downloads. We looked at this again in November of 2013, but only for a 10 day period, which showed over 1,800 unique download locations during that time. This is obviously not a detailed trend analysis, but getting over 10% of the number of downloading IP's seen in the first 10 months in as little as 10 days seems like an upward trend to me. One other point to make: we offer a command line tool for interacting with our API. This is certainly not the only option available to users of a CloudStack-based cloud, but that tool has been downloaded from the python package index over 10,000 times since it's release. Please let us know if you have any further questions... Happy to help you understand the project, with the obvious qualification that projects at the ASF are certainly not able to track things in quite the same way as a commercial product company can. -chip Chip Childers VP Apache CloudStack The Apache Software Foundation On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Nelson, Lauren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi CloudStack team -- > > I'm writing a report on the state of standards in IaaS which we'll be > sending through for review in the upcoming weeks. Before it's ready for > review, I am looking to include an estimate on the total number of > downloads. Could you provide the most recent figure? It would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lauren > > -- > > *Lauren E. Nelson* > > *Analyst*, Serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals | *Forrester > Research, Inc.* | *60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 United > States |** direct > +1 617.613.6682 **| [email protected] <[email protected]> | **My > blog <http://blogs.forrester.com/lauren_nelson> | @lauren_e_nelson > <https://twitter.com/lauren_e_nelson> | LinkedIn profile > <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lauren-nelson/10/203/864>*
