Re: A few NG related questions

"John" <jbradshaw777_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f2f59d82.0308131712.3e07c593_at_posting.google.com...
> Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message
news:<MPG.19a4381399a459a598983b_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net>...
>
> > > * I saw posting statistics posted from time to time. How are these
> > > ststs generated? Is ORACLE Corp. somehow involved?
> >
> > One of the members of these NGs (the comp.databases.oracle... set) wrote
a
> > Perl program to extract those statistics.
> >
> Wow, how do you do that? Don't you have to have access to the News
> server? If I am accessing these messages through Google, I would not
> be able to generate that kind of stats, right?
>
> > > * For people who have been in these NGs for a while, how has the
> > > traffic to these NGs changed over the years? I heard somebody say the
> > > traffic used to be much busier.
> >
> > Been here a while. Haven't noticed any major increase or decrease in the
> > traffic. But I'm not sure what conclusions you can draw based only on
the
> > amount of traffic in a NG. The statistics you mentioned above show that
> > sometimes some troll will anger a bunch of people and traffic will go up
> > dramatically for a while. I don't think anyone would claim that the
> > increase reflects an increase in quality.
> >
> My thinking was that amount of traffic is a good indicator of the
> popularity of a product. I don't think anybody can dispute that ORACLE
> is a much more powerful product than SQL server. But if more people
> visit SQL server NGs than ORACLE, and if more now than before, it
> kinda makes you wonder about the trend.
> Kinda like the 'terror future market' put out by the Pentagon, well,
> sort of...
>

Hi John,

I haven't managed to post much lately, too damn busy.

But my feeling towards Oracle hasn't changed.

Sorry to stuff up your stats ;)

Cheers

Richard Received on Fri Aug 15 2003 - 09:09:14 CDT