[REPORT] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace - AOO 4.1.1 downloads

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

Here are updates of the downloads for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, now that 4.1.2 is being distributed by the mirror system.

>From Sourceforge,
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/stats/os?dates=2014-08-01+to+2015-11-08>

Just shy of 50,000,000 downloads.  This number will be exceeded as older versions will still continue downloading, although at an ever-decreasing rate.

   87.7% for Windows
    9.0% for Macintosh (0.1% small drop from end of August)
    3.3% for everything else, including Linux

For the different countries in the same period (53.6 million for all distributions, not just 4.1.1), the breakdown can be found here: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?dates=2014-08-01+to+2015-11-09>.

It is cool that there were 3 to Antartica: 2 for Windows, 1 for Macintosh.

 - Dennis



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 18:38
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace -
> Downloading
> 
> Here is a rough, top-level view of Apache OpenOffice by the operating
> systems it is downloaded for.  This should be no surprise.  To have some
> grounding on the immediate situation, here are the downloading
> statistics of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 so far.
> 
> From Sourceforge,
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/stats/
> os?dates=2014-08-01+to+2015-08-31>.
> 
> Of the 41 million downloads that have occurred since release of 4.1.1,
> until the end of August,
> 
>     87.7% are for Windows
>      9.1% are for Macintosh
>      3.2% is everything else, including Linux
> 
> We know some sources of noise, but the overall picture is very clear and
> very decisive.
> 
> For example, some users download multiple times as a form of (usually-
> unsuccessful) trouble-shooting.  We know about that because the next
> step for some is to come to the forums or one of our mailing lists after
> those attempts fail.
> 
> There are also folks who download for use by multiple people and there
> may be some distribution via package installers that are not visible
> here.  That can't change the high-level pattern by much in the case of
> AOO.
> 
> The overall pattern of downloads, with no separation by version, can be
> seen in the chart from 2012-10-01 (around when Apache OpenOffice became
> an official top-level project) to 2015-08-31.  You can see consistent
> seasonal variation and also detect when new releases were introduced,
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeli
> ne?dates=2012-10-01+to+2015-08-31>.
> 
> A more interesting statistic to notice, apart from the perpetual
> dominance of Windows and Macintosh users in the AOO "marketplace" is the
> fact that only about 16-17% of the downloads occur in the United States.
> 
> The SourceForge statistics are easy to operate with.  For refined
> analysis there are datasets and analysis scripts that Rob Weir has
> provided at <https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/devtools/aoo-
> stats/>.
> 
> What is more difficult to determine is what folks are actually doing
> with Apache OpenOffice.  There may be ways to learn more.
> 
>  - Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 20:01
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace
> 
> I had not encountered the topic of "ODF in the market place" with regard
> to status of Apache OpenOffice.  Perhaps I have not been paying
> attention.
> 
> I am curious how we might characterize how support for ODF matters to
> Apache OpenOffice users and various institutions that value support for
> ODF in their reliance on Apache OpenOffice and related software.
> 
> How can we determine what the influence of ODF is with respect to Apache
> OpenOffice?
> 
> It strikes me there are two parts to this question.
> 
>  1. Who are the users of Apache OpenOffice?
> 
>  2. What are the ways ODF is (comparatively) significant to those users?
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> WHO ARE THE USERS?
> 
> Although there are now over 150 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice,
> that does not tell us how many individual users are involved.
> 
> Perhaps the download counts just for AOO 4.1.1 would be a representable
> sample of a particularly-active segment of the user base, even though
> that would be underestimated a couple of ways.  But that, and the
> average weekly rate would be useful as "at least" figures.
> 
> The mix of platforms for those downloads is also important, reflecting
> the context in which those installed downloads are used by new users and
> those who are keeping their configurations current.
> 
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> 
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