Subject: Re: Listings on Shareware Sites
From: Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 08:52:59 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jared Davis wrote:
>
>
>>Hey everyone,
>>
>>I've come up with a short list of about 40 shareware/freeware sites
>>that list AbiWord. You can see the complete spreadsheet in gnumeric or
>>excel format at:
>> http://www.aiksaurus.com/~jared/abiword/
>>
>>Some highlights:
>> cnet.com claims 78,000 windows downloads and 13,000 linux downloads.
>> sourceforge.net claims 27,000 downloads of 0.9.2.
>> freshmeat.net claims 20,000 hits sent to abiword's home page.
>> wexes.com claims 4,500 downloads.
>> zdnetasia.com claims 1,000 downloads.
>> pcworld.com claims 1,000 downloads.
>>
>>Unfortunately, many of these sites are sorely out of date. In particular,
>>CNet's site is still listing version 0.7.13 for the windows download, and
>>0.7.1 or the linux download. This is kind of bad because CNet is
>>seemingly responsible for a very large amount of downloads.
>>
>>This probably isn't imperative right now, but for the 1.0 release it might
>>be well worth the time it would take to contact these sites. Maybe we
>>should come up with a release strategy that involves updating some of
>>these sites? A simple spreadsheet could serve as a good database if we
>>kept it updated, and you could spread the responsibility out so that
>>each person who was willing to contact these sites would only have to
>>contact a few of them. My list certainly isn't comprehensive, but it only
>>took an hour or so of google searching to create.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>
>
> This is a great idea Jared. I think of a few more off the top of my
> head.
>
> 1. TuCows.com
> 2. download.com
> 3. DaveCentral.com
download.com == CNet
-- Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)
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