On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:56:28PM -0500, emf wrote: > How Many Zopatistas? > > Zope gets downloaded from zope.org 12-15,000 times a month. > It has risen steadily over the last year and a half. Zope > has been downloaded roughly 200,000 times since version 2.0. > > Zope is distributed on all major linux distributions, but > there's no way of tracking those. > > Netcraft asserts that there are 937 servers > "reporting themselves as zope", > http://www.netcraft.com/survey/Reports/0010/byserver/Zope/index.html A quick supplement: Debian provides an optional package popularity-contest, that, if installed and configured, sends a list of the packages installed on a machine to a central instance. If you look at the results of this sample of Debian installations, in the section `web packages' (http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr//popcon/results.web.html), the top 20 are like this: Package Vote Old Recent Unknown apache-common 461 87 35 0 apache 457 36 20 0 wget 434 334 88 0 lynx 407 169 21 0 junkbuster 163 29 3 0 mozilla 143 145 89 0 squid 139 2 3 0 htdig 84 16 2 0 wwwoffle 66 1 1 0 weblint 60 266 25 0 analog 58 105 51 0 webalizer 50 48 9 0 zope 49 15 9 0 imp 40 1 1 0 apache-dev 38 126 29 0 php3 37 75 52 0 tidy 31 127 15 0 boa 29 1 6 0 konqueror 28 0 50 0 apache-perl 28 4 1 0 (About 924 individual computers submitted results this week. - Vote: Number of people that use this package regularly. - Old: Number of people who installed but have not used the package recently. - Recent: Upgraded the package too recently for stats to be valid. - Unknown: No files in the package were used in the statistics calculation.) For sure this is by no way a representative sample of all Debian installations. FWIW, if it was representative, it would suggest that Apache was installed on half of all Debian installation, and that Zope was installed on 5 % of all Debian installations. You could start and multiply that with an estimate of the number of Debian installations (no idea, something in between 5e4 and 5e6, I'd guess ;-) to end up with some 2000 up to 200000 installed Zope Debian packages. What exactly did Churchill have to say about statistics ? Gregor _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )