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Microsoft Outlook ranked 7th, Lotus Notes 1763rd

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I came across an interesting site over the weekend called wakoopa, the site tracks what applications you use, how often and for how long.  Obviously the rankings of the system are flawed to a certain extend because, you have to install some software to do the tracking, and it can only track people that installed it.  So the numbers it reflects cannot show real usage.  What I found interesting was that Microsoft Outlook (not express) was ranked 7th as the most used application and Lotus Notes was raked 1,763rd.  Quite a difference.  This got me to thinking, if every IBMer installed the little tracked, the number of Notes users being tracked on the system would increase dramatically and Notes could get a much more respectable position, and in the process show how flawed the system actually is.

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Gravatar Image1 - I couldn't find anywhere on Wakoopa's site where they explain what "used" means. Open on the desktop? Topmost on the pile? GotFocus? Actually receiving user input? I call shenanigans mostly because of the rather high rankings of Opera and Chrome, though these two browsers are typically less than 1% in the open world. Says to me that their sample pool is rather small and skewed toward early adopters in large organizations.

This is supported by the fact that if you search for "Notes" in their search, the Notes client for Mac is called "Notes," but the Windows client is "IBM Lotus Notes/Domino" and a lot of the users using that are using 8.5 releases or strange builds of 8. There are also lots of strange version numbers, like 3.26.1.2248, 2.21, 2.6 and 1.0.1703.0.

And even #1 Firefox is only 20,000 or so humans. Definitely tech-heads. If we got 1/8 of IBM and 1/100 of the customers to install this thing, we could crown the Notes client king of the world and demand that Network World write a big article about it.

Gravatar Image2 - Apparently what it proves is what types of software are more likely to be run on systems where the end-user is not prevented from installing random software downloaded from the internet.

In other words, what software you run when you aren't worried about security.

Enough said.

Gravatar Image3 - "f every IBMer installed the little tracked..."
This is never gonna happen Carl, and you know the reasons perfectly well.
Besides, I agree with comments #1 and #2, we have much better things to do than waste time trying to increase the visibility of our products on silly websites.
RoB

Gravatar Image4 - Since I use that software on my machines for a long time, I can tell you another thing screwing with the stats. Go add in all the Eclipse ones that are really Notes. Seriously. They reported themselves wrong for 8.0

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