[Fedora-marketing-list] Vibrancy of Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Hi


"We look at the vibrancy of the Fedora Project, our open source 
community. Fedora is Red Hat's vehicle for bringing advanced technology 
really quickly to end-users. The last release of Fedora has been out for 
about four months and we are averaging more than 100,000 downloads a 
week and 1.5 million downloads total. Compare that 100,000 a week to 
Oracle with their release of Oracle Linux. We reach in seven hours what 
they reached in their very first month of releasing that source code."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=18&articleId=9011404&intsrc=hm_topic
http://www.infoworld.com/video/archives/2007/02/red_hat.html

Since we are actually track IP connections on updates instead of 
downloads, I suspect our actual download numbers are way higher. It 
appears we are going to hit 2 millions Fedora Core 6 users in a few 
weeks too.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

Rahul