PC Advisor: Software Vendors’ Figures Can Be Misleading

“Has one in every 100 people in Japan downloaded MySQL’s
database? Figures published by the company this week imply that’s
the case, but common sense suggests otherwise.

“Software companies love to brag about download figures but in
reality they can be misleading, analysts and some vendors say.
Companies routinely include incomplete downloads in their total,
even though the same user is likely to have tried again after an
initial failure, and hardly any vendors estimate how many people
actually install and use their software…”

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