Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> My primary desire is to avoid having to download several Meg of tar 
>>> ball(s) in order to add a module to an existing server ... if that can be 
>>> accomplished, then my main objection to adding things to the core CVS are 
>>> eliminated ...
>> 
>> I guess I don't see the problem of the PostgreSQL distribution being 11 
>> megs, heck even 50 megs. I know that some places don't have the bandwidth 
>> we do but it only takes me about 90 seconds to download the distribution.
>
> Granted, "we in the West" are lucky ... but I know alot of ppl still on 
> dialup, and I believe there are still alot of places in Europe (or is/was it 
> just GB?) that pay per byte for their bandwidth ... even myself, at home, on 
> a cable modem, have at times found downloads to be atrociously slow due to 
> load n the network ...

If anyone knows a *good* source for this sort of thing, please send me a 
URL, but a quick search on google finds:


"The market share for permanent connections continued to increase in 
December and now accounts for 39.4 per cent of all connections. This 
compares with a market share of 21.9 per cent a year before."
http://www.i10.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_136457

Which, to me, indicates that ~60.6% of all connections are still dial-up 
(does ISDN count as a permanent connection?) ... but, I don't know where 
they are getting their #s from, so, as I said, if someone else can point 
me to better stats, please do ...

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