Whatever number is chosen, note that the MySQL people quoted 2 million
downloads of their beta (ref:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_959.html). Granted
they've been in beta significantly longer, and have had more beta
releases than us, but for someone comparing the press releases... Might
definitly be good to pick different wording so it can't be directly
compared.
//Magnus
> I'd try and focus more on # of beta testers, not # of
> downloads ... how many "unique visitors" have downloaded the
> beta copy? "Over 1000 beta testers ..." is more impressive,
> I think, then "20k downloads of the beta"
> ...
>
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > 5) I've just checked our download stats. So far, we've
> only had about
> > 11,000 beta downloads. If there's no accelleration, that
> could mean
> > about 20,000 downloads at the time of release. So,
> question, is 20,000
> > beta downloads impressive at all? Or does this make it a bad quote?
> >
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