On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:51, Laura Shepard wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> There is significant business planning interest in knowing our XFS Linux
> installed base.
>
> I have a method of inferring this from the number of downloads.
>
> Ideally we would like to know how many downloads there have been of XFS
> since v1.0 was put on the site... can anyone assist?
I do not think we have hard numbers, the logs on the machine have
been purged several times. We are probably talking about a number
somewhere between 10 and 100 thousand - the range really could be
that wide. And of course one download does not mean one install, it
can mean a failed install, and it can mean 100 installs. There are
also several mirror sites people can download from. Eric can probably
parse the logs on oss and get some numbers for a smaller
time period.
We would also have to factor in the distributions which ship XFS
now: Suse, Mandrake (soon available on pc's in Walmart!), Debian
and a number of less well known ones.
Then do not forget the NAS boxes: Quantum, HP, Brocade, NEC, Sun and
several others. The set top and embedded applications we do not
really have any idea about.
There is a good chance out install base is bigger than Irix
by now.
Steve
>
> -Laura
>
> Laura Shepard
> SGI Marketing Manager : SANs & File Systems
> Phone: 650-933-5045 V-net 933-5045 Pager: 888-576-0185
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