In response to last week's post, Wichert Akkerman pointed out that he thought the Windows installers always showed more downloads than Unix-based ones. He suggested that I dig around for the actual numbers. Never one to turn down a challenge, I extracted the numbers from Launchpad and took a look around.
Turns out, there are some anomalies. The data for 2.5.x are probably incomplete due to the changeover to Launchpad several years ago. Also, Plone 3.2.1 shows almost 700,000 downloads of the Windows installer. Plone 3.2.2 shows almost 200,00 downloads of the unified installer for *nix. If we take the data "as is," the graph looks like this with 3.2 dwarfing everything else.
If we remove the 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 data, assuming those to be some sort of outlier, the graph looks like this.
Either way, Wichert is right--the Windows installer is being downloaded 3-4 times for every download of the unified installer. Only 2.5 shows the unified installer outperforming the Windows version. BTW, OS X is always under 10%, and for most versions, under 2%.
I leave it as an exercise for the student to interpret all this. Does this mean lots of people download the Windows version to test the product before installing on a Unix box? Is Enfold Systems with it's toolset aimed squarely at Plone for Windows in the sweet spot for Plone consulting? And what is going on with downloads for 3.2.x? Your thoughts, please.
Turns out, there are some anomalies. The data for 2.5.x are probably incomplete due to the changeover to Launchpad several years ago. Also, Plone 3.2.1 shows almost 700,000 downloads of the Windows installer. Plone 3.2.2 shows almost 200,00 downloads of the unified installer for *nix. If we take the data "as is," the graph looks like this with 3.2 dwarfing everything else.
If we remove the 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 data, assuming those to be some sort of outlier, the graph looks like this.
Either way, Wichert is right--the Windows installer is being downloaded 3-4 times for every download of the unified installer. Only 2.5 shows the unified installer outperforming the Windows version. BTW, OS X is always under 10%, and for most versions, under 2%.
I leave it as an exercise for the student to interpret all this. Does this mean lots of people download the Windows version to test the product before installing on a Unix box? Is Enfold Systems with it's toolset aimed squarely at Plone for Windows in the sweet spot for Plone consulting? And what is going on with downloads for 3.2.x? Your thoughts, please.
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