A couple that come to mind, but aren't on that list are:

www.springer.com - publisher
mobile.walmart.com - retailer

Scott

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Jeremy Thomerson
<jer...@wickettraining.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Colman
> <chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com>wrote:
>
>> The 'popularity' test is very vague but I understand it's purpose, they
>> want to ensure that they use products that are widely used and have an
>> active user community: which is very true of Wicket. Does anyone have
>> some numbers on this? Like how many Wicket developers there are, or how
>> many websites are Wicket driven? Is there a page on the wicket website
>> that contains a list of the companies/products that use Wicket - if not,
>> should we add one?
>>
>
> There's no way to quantify this metric.  And don't let them use the false
> "job search" *technique* to think that they know.  There are too many
> reasons that you don't get accurate numbers from this.  There is a page on
> the wiki that lists a fraction of the sites using Wicket.
> https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/websites-based-on-wicket.html
>
> Ultimately, I would direct them away from this.  It doesn't *actually*
> matter.  What matters is this (in roughly this order):
>
>   1. Pick a technology that fits your needs
>   2. Pick a technology that is productive
>   3. Pick a technology that, when you hit a stumbling block, you can get
>   help with.
>
> You've already demonstrated one and two.  Number three can be demonstrated
> by asking them to subscribe to the dev and users lists here for a week.
>  Then dare them to find an open source web framework that has better
> community support.  I haven't seen one.
>
> --
> Jeremy Thomerson
> http://www.wickettraining.com
>

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