Re: [tdf-discuss] How did AOO figure it was worth $21 Million dollars a day or $7 billion per year?

Hello Tim,

I suspect they multiply the standard package price of MS Office and
multiply that by their numbers of stated downloads, then divide it by
365. At least that's how I would do it.

best,
Charles. 

Le mardi 19 février 2013 à 12:15 -0500, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
> How did AOO figure out how much their version of OOo was worth per day 
> to users?
>
> I cannot figure out any way.  Of course it makes great Marketing Copy.  
> We are giving our users some much product value, we must be the better 
> product.  FUD or what?
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/apache-openoffice-valued-at-21m-per-day
>
>   The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache OpenOffice 
> has a value of $21 million a day.
>
> ASF officials said Apache OpenOffice has averaged 131,455 downloads per 
> day since its 3.4 release last May. That represents an average value to 
> the public of $21 million per day or $7.61 billion per year, ASF said.


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