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Stats Project$Date: 2007/09/13 16:10:24 $
OpenOffice.org StatisticsMission StatementStats Project aims to provide a logical reference point for all OpenOffice.org statistics, including downloads, mail list, website, and Issue Tracker activity. Everyone is welcome to join. We in particular need people who can create appealing and intelligible charts for public consumption. We use the dev@stats.openoffice.org mail list for work discussions.
Other Metrics2007-09: Since February 2007 OpenOffice.org's stats have been more difficult to track, as the data sets have grown significantly. We reliably track downloads, and the latest data indicate OpenOffice.org's continued and massive growth. In January of 2004 we began using more conservative measurements. We track full-page accesses. As well, users are now hitting servers directly. How reliable are the data? Depends: there is some duplication (a user may go to the main download page then to the relevant Native-Language page, for instance), and not all who go to a page actually will download the file. Yet, the sum of page reflected below does not distinguish actual paths taken; rather, it presents the fiction that the total number accurately represents the total number of downloads. With 25 March 2006, I am presenting the data in a clearer fashion: the Main Download Page row in the table above tallies hits to the main download page, e.g., that for 2.0.2, or 2.0.x. It does not count hits to the Native Language Pages. The "Overall" row does include that, as well as other downloads, but the sum there necessarily includes some duplication, as a typical path might look like this: Homepage -> Main Download -> Native Language Page, and both the Main Download and Native Language page would be tallied, resulting in an erroneous doubling.
Sometime in early April 2005 we passed 40 million downloads. This of course does not mean that 40 million people use OpenOffice.org; the number, we believe, is actually higher. It does mean that the application and source has been downloaded at least 40 million times, with the vast majority since the release of 1.0 in May 2002. So, how many people do use OpenOffice.org? It's hard to say. OpenOffice.org is distributed by every major (and probably most minor) Linux distributions, such as Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Mandrakesoft, Linspire, Novell, and so on; it is also distributed, as a derived product, by Sun (Star Office), Red Office, Magyar Office, SOT Office, Workplace, and many, many more. Then there are CD distributions. One copy of OpenOffice.org can breed a nearly infinite number of installations. Furthermore, because OpenOffice.org works on every major platform, and not just Linux, we can't just point to the Linus distribution data and say, "Look! for every Linux desktop, count an OOo user!" because there are also desktops running Windows, Mac OS X, Free BSD, OS/2 and so on. Reports by groups like IDC, Gartner, to name but two, suggest that OpenOffice.org can lay claim to a good percentage of the overall office suite market. We would guess it's close to 10 percent but we can't say for sure. In developing nations, it may be a lot more; and in Europe, where OSS is quickly gaining ground, the actual usage of OpenOffice.org, on Windows or Linux, may be very large indeed. 2.0 OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released on a Thursday. In the first few days, hundreds of thousands downloaded it. In the next week, the numbers stayed steady. To give an idea of the popularity:
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