This evening Stu Gott dropped a bombshell on me, not literally but it had a similar impact. The guys at rPath have run a report on our little project and I was shocked to say the least when I found out that the Bongo appliance has been downloaded 0ver 7000 times. I seem to remember thinking this is a nice small project for me to help the Bongo-Project with, it will never take off as much as the packages that Andrew and the others are creating but will allow me to do my part.
Well to say the least I was sceptical as you can guess but then he pasted these stats for me to look at.
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| ReportforProject |
+——————+
| Bongo |
+——————+
+———–+—————–+
| Downloads | ImageType |
+———–+—————–+
| 2917 | INSTALLABLE_ISO |
| 4 | LIVE_ISO |
| 1002 | MICROSOFT_VHD |
| 1 | RAW_HD_IMAGE |
| 1090 | VMWARE_ESX |
| 1891 | VMWARE_PLAYER |
| 1040 | XEN_IMAGE |
| 1 | XEN_OVA |
| 7946 | NULL |
+———–+—————–+
+———–+——-+——+
| Downloads | Month | Year |
+———–+——-+——+
| 15 | 08 | 2007 |
| 4 | 09 | 2007 |
| 40 | 10 | 2007 |
| 384 | 01 | 2008 |
| 821 | 02 | 2008 |
| 732 | 03 | 2008 |
| 1048 | 04 | 2008 |
| 1249 | 05 | 2008 |
| 938 | 06 | 2008 |
| 961 | 07 | 2008 |
| 812 | 08 | 2008 |
| 634 | 09 | 2008 |
| 308 | 10 | 2008 |
+———–+——-+——+
I had to add up the totals myself as I could not believe it was that much. But true to form the total was 7000 which is a great achievement.
I cannot continue on without mentioning the guys who keep this project going I am not going to mention names as I my memory is so bad that I would forget someone. THANKS GUYS!!!!!!!
I feel like I have won and Oscar or something like that.
This has not been a chore to do as I have been learning as we have gone along and without Stu Gott’s help I am sure I would still be pulling my hair out. What shocks me more is that people are downloading us even though we say that it is not quite ready for use yet.
I am sure we will break all types of records when we release version 1.0 and it is something I look forward to. There is still many hours of programming and packaging ahead of us and we will continue doing what we do best looking after our baby as it were.
I almost forgot to add that I want to that all the people who have downloaded The Bongo appliance and also the other packages for being interested and also for trying us out. We are getting better and better.
I have run out of words to say………
Thanks