Nicolas Barcet Free zone of nijaba

Some people may say that I am a statistics junky... Well that's certainly true! But what do you want, being a product manager for a product that does not require ANY form of user registration, you have a tendancy to cling to any piece of data you may find that shows that you are not working in vain. Indeed, and to the opposite of most, if not all, of our competitors, we have absolutely no way to determine what is our install base.  We don't control our mirors, we don't have any ping back home mechanisms, and we are not considering adding any.  So, here I am, collecting as much information I can from outside sources...

Well, october was not too bad in that sense:

• The 2009 Data Center Purchasing Survey shows Ubuntu installs growing from 9% to 14% year to year.
• A not so nice article from Netcraft reveals that 1.4 Million server declare themselves as running Ubuntu.  

Personally I consider the outage that Netcraft highlight here as a good sign of success as the reason is that our ever increasing bandwidth for release day maxes out.  Since I could not find any comparative numbers by OS from netcraft, I have to consider that 1.4 million is quite a significant number, so that makes me really happy...  Should I?