I didn't get a chance to go to OSCON 2008. Bummer. But I can live vicariously through google. So, along with all of the announcements you've heard from OSCON, I know present the OSCON 2008 - Google popularity contest. This is a completely unscientific survey of google hits. I was searching blogs and news. I started with just news but the blogs hits really upped the numbers.
To run these searches, I use "oscon 2008" and the search term, for example:
"oscon 2008" mysql
In the case of open source, I also quoted "open source".
I'm using google's about number. I didn't sit and count each hit. ;-)
| Category | Term | Hits |
| General | open source | 28600 |
| cloud | 4220 | |
| Database | database | 9680 |
| mysql | 10300 | |
| postgres | 2560 | |
| drizzle | 521 | |
| hadoop | 277 | |
| firebird | 809 | |
| derby | 1680 | |
| ingres | 3190 | |
| luciddb | 37 | |
| couchdb | 298 | |
| Vendor | sun | 9390 |
| oracle | 6480 | |
| microsoft | 15100 | |
| apple | 10500 | |
| intel | 45800 | |
| Language | ruby | 5730 |
| php | 12400 | |
| java | 43200 | |
| perl | 8280 | |
| python | 5230 | |
| mono | 842 | |
| Linux | ubuntu | 10700 |
| fedora | 5120 | |
| debian | 5040 | |
| bsd | 4870 | |
| centos | 2520 | |
| gentoo | 16900 | |
| red hat | 5860 | |
| suse | 3220 |
Interesting results. MySQL took the database by a good margin. I thought Ubuntu would take the Linux flavor but Gentoo got it. I also didn't expect Java to be #1 much less by such a huge margin.
LewisC
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