[Mapserver-users] how many mapserver users are over the world?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22cgi-bin%2Fmapserv%22&btnG=Search

and this doesn't even count PHP, Perl or Python scripts

-Steve W.

Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> Selling software makes it soo much easier :)
> 
> We sure talk about "users" pretty loosely too - usually we talk about the 
> actual app. developers and "map makers" but add in the "clients" of those 
> applications and it must be quite interesting (and equally unmeasurable).
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> 
>>Always the great unknown. Open source software is downloaded and used 
>>alot of the time by people who never join the lists. So lists are only a 
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>>pale reflection of overall useage.
>>
>>It would be nice if mapserver had a 'phone-home' that hit a particular 
>>URL at UMN once and reported back it's version number and IP address. 
>>Then UMN could compile statistics about real mapserver usage, in terms 
>>of version deployed, and general location deployed (using some of the 
>>simple IP->location databases). It could be disabled with a 
>>--disabe-phonehome compile option for those who are shy, and would only 
>>do it once (dropping a file into tmp perhaps to indicate it has been 
> 
> done?).
> 
>>A dream, I know, but it is sad that we do not know the true size of our 
>>user community.
>>
>>I have often thought that
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