[Zope] zope user numbers

Quentin Smith quentins@comclub.org
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:09:23 -0500 (EST)


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
>