Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 20050810214025.V1002@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>>
>> If your average spend on books per download of PostgreSQL is about 6
>> cents, I think there's something wrong somewhere. [775,000 downloads
>> this year]
>
> Yes but how many of those downloads turned into someone actually using the
> software? Probably 5%. How many of those downloads are from people
> who already use the software? I have downloaded it myself probably 30 times
> this year.

Definitely concur with that, as I know I've downloaded several hundred
copies between reinstalling computers, upgrading postgresql versions, etc
...

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