GrADS download statistics at sf.net

[Arlindo da Silva]

All,

   Can you guess what is the most popular GrADS platform? The attached
Pie Charts show the download statistics of the opengrads builds at
sourceforge. Windows is by far the most popular platforms (61% for
v1.9.0-rc1, 67% for v2.0.15.oga.x), followed by Linux (around 20%) and
sources (6%-9%).  Mac OS X account for less than 3% of the downloads.
If you take in consideration estimates of these Operating System
market shares, e.g.,

   http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

you would conclude, not surprisingly,  that the GrADS community favors
Linux more than the community at large. I was somewhat surprised by
the Mac OS X numbers, although they are consistent with Apple's
standing in the market place.  On the up-and-coming platforms, FreeBSD
appear to be growing in popularity among some GrADS users,
particularly in Europe.

 Are we going to see GrADS running on the iPhone and Android/LiMo
devices any time soon? Perhaps, once we can put our hands on one of
these devices. We already have an experimental version of GrADS v2.0
running entirely under the Java Virtual Machine. If there is anybody
out there with programming experience in these platforms that would
like to get involved in this effort please contact us at
opengrads-devel at lists.sourceforge.net.

 Cheers!

    Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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