Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:59:10 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rich Wilson" <wk633@yahoo.com>, <Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! Message-ID: <001201c0b99f$52c8bdc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010330211817.22050.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com>
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I'm sure that they are telling the report purchasers the entire data. This kind of marketing survey is basically a bunch of statistics, and including FreeBSD in the initial survey was a mistake. However, the marketing data still has value even though FreeBSD was included by accident. If you remove FreeBSD from the results, none of the numbers are going to balance and the survey is going to be worthless. Consider that the gaffe has probably given them far more publicity than if the report was correctly done, so I wouldn't shed any tears. Also consider that since they did include FreeBSD there was probably a lot more in-depth data on use of the OS so I would guess that anyone looking to market FreeBSD products specifically would also be interested in the data. I don't know what they are charging for the data but I myself would love a peek at it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rich Wilson >Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:18 PM >To: Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! > > >Now that Evans Data has posted a second table which puts the >FreeBSD data back >in. The question is, what's in the report? Including FreeBSD in >the sample >data page might make US happy, but what are they telling the >people who pay for >the report? > >I would think anyone interested researching the use of Linux among web >developers would also be interested in other open source unix-like OSes. > >===== >: __o >: -\<, >: 0/ 0 > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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