[Zope] zope user numbers

[Ben Avery]

that's a nice number. I wonder how many are running behind Apache, 
though - those wouldn't be accounted for there. it could be twice the 
number.
anyone like to hazard a guess (of what percent of Zopes are running 
behind Apache?)

Quentin Smith wrote:
> Hi-
> Perhaps you mean something like the Netcraft web server survey.
> http://www.netcraft.net/Survey/Reports/0211/
> 11,607 servers were running Zope on November 1, out of about 3 million.
> Hope this helps,
> --Quentin
> 
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Ben Avery wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:40:35 +0000
>>From: Ben Avery <ben_avery@hotmail.com>
>>To: zope@zope.org
>>Subject: [Zope] zope user numbers
>>
>>hi zopistas,
>>
>>I've been wondering how many people use Zope out there. It's not
>>just idle curiosity, a (large) number would help a lot of people,
>>myself included, persuade their heads of department that Zope
>>would be a good thing to adopt, and not just another
>>flash-in-the-pan Open Source product that goes away in a couple
>>of years, leaving an expensive maintenance legacy.
>>Just a ballpark figure would be great.
>>
>>I realise this is hard to determine, as it's a free download from
>>numerous sites. and even if the downloads could be clocked and
>>summed from the various main sources, that wouldn't really give
>>an indication of how many people are actally using it in the
>>industry.
>>And not everyone using Zope will post on this board, although a
>>count of the distinct email addresses from the archives would be
>>useful.
>>
>>Well, here's an idea: one thing that people do buy,
>>regarding Zope is books. If we could add up the sales figures
>>from amazon.com (or contact the publishers if the figures aren't
>>publicly available) for the main popular zope books, and compare
>>it to the main popular books of another product on a similar
>>technical level, where the population *is* known, say a
>>commercial product - then maybe that ballpark figure could be
>>thrown.
>>Sure a lot use just the online docs, but ditto for other products.
>>Does anyone know the user numbers for anything like, say, Websphere?
>>...or is that just a silly idea? :)
>>
>>Ben Avery
>>ben@thesite.org
>>
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