Author: Simon Capstick Date: To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Only 400 people use BBC News from Linux
Adam Trickett wrote: > On Friday 02 Nov 2007, Paul Tansom wrote:
>> ** Tony Whitmore <tony@???> [2007-11-02 10:44]:
>>> That's the claim from the BBC's head of technology in a recent interview:
>>>
>>> http://linkpot.net/diatribe/ >>>
>>> "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our
>>> server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400
>>> to 600 are Linux users."
>> I'd be interested to know how those statistics are gathered.
>
> I agree, I think it's a vacuous and stupid statement to make, I'm sure there
> are more than 400 Linux users in the United Kingdom, and I'm pretty sure a
> high percentage check the BBC site at some point during a typical week.
>
> Is the BBC head of technology another former Microsoft executive?
>
>
Could it be that he meant (or was misquoted) 400,000-600,000. That
would roughly equate to the 3.5% of these statistics...
