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