Attention / Interest / Desire / Action, getfedora.org, or why marketing 'the Fedora project' is a bad idea.

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 23 17:26:20 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:16 -0500, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:12 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 6/23/05, Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Fedora has a significant user base. It's about the same as SUSE Pro and
> > > NLD combined. It trails Ubuntu and Debian and derivatives by about 50%.
> > 
> > Where are you getting your userbase stats from?
> > 
> > -jef
> > 
> 
> A Sun market study, Canonical Ltd., Debian's web site analysis, my
> publisher - O'Reilly, former Ximian - now Novell people, the executive
> suite of Novell, IBM, a survey of users, classified information from a
> DoD study, results of a series of articles reviewing various
> distributions, Linspire, Xandros, and sampling from Linux forums such as
> Linux Questions. 
> 

So you can provide this information to us? Can we get it in any other
form than anecdotally from you?

-sv





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