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Oracle OpenWorld gave us a bit of a window into (some of?) Oracle's customers and into their style. I just noticed they have a master index of all their current Ads; check out the Master Page, and these categories: Middleware, Applications and Sun.

As noticeable samples, check the 4 below.

I've gone to many JavaOne conferences at the Moscone Center but today was my first experience of a Oracle OpenWorld. I was very curious and I found the experience very interesting. Although the two conferences are in the same physical space, the two experiences are very different.

I only have an "exhibitor" pass, so I've not been able to attend any of the technical sessions but, with those caveats, below are some observations; feel free to add additional observations as comments to this entry. Also check my Flickr set.

• OOW is significantly larger in attendance. I've heard about 40K-45K; J1 was, at its peak, 20-25K (afair).
• OOW uses not just Moscone North and South, but also West, and they close Howard street.
• The tent is an integral part of the event, used for lunches, drinks and as a lounge.
• The dress code at OOW are suits... and very few body piercings :-)
• Most attendees at OOW seem to use (smart)phones to stay connected (to their admin assistants?).
• The (internet cafe-like) area with stations to check email / browse at OOW is much smaller than at J1
• The expo and keynote areas are reversed between Moscone South and North.
• The Expo at OOW is very busy, with all the big names in SIs, hardware, software, etc.
• No more bean bags at the bottom of the stairs.
• The developer track is 6 blocks away, at the San Francisco Hilton.

Really, the two conferences can't be more different. Also check out some pictures I took.

One of Scott's phrases is Kick Butt and Have Fun. I just finished listening to Scott and Larry (and John and James) at the Sunday Keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, and it is clear that Larry subscribes to "Kick Butt" - he fired a lot of shots at IBM, like Scott used to do... A sample of Larry's style is the Exadata Challenge. The recordings of the keynote seem to be posted within a day of the event; for example, this morning's keynote is already available. To find them, go to the OpenWorld Live site, wait for the channel to start playing, then go to the menu and select from there. Ah, and there is an updated version of the "Oracle on Sun" TPC-C benchmark result, see Oracle's Ad site and read the full details in Brian's post.

This note provides a summary of GlassFish adoption statistics updated through September 2009. This is intended to be a monthly series but it's been three months since the last installment because it was the summer break... and we had a few other distractions.

September 2009 shows record numbers on several categories. The good numbers are partly due to the end of the summer, partly to people getting over the Sun+Oracle noise, partly to GFv3/JavaEE 6 getting closer, and partly to improved visibility of our downloads links in different Java.Sun.Com sites.

Download Data

Data for GlassFish Server downloads from Jul'05 to Sep'09 is presented through two data sets, shown aggregated vertically. The first group includes the SDKs (the Java EE SDK, the Java Application Platform SDK and the JavaEE Tools SDK), the Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and GlassFish Server and the Eclipse Bundle. The second group has the NetBeans bundles that include GlassFish.

I am not including my usual chart for the d/l stats for the JBoss AppServer due to changes in the way SourceForge reports d/l stats but the total number of d/ls for all the files in the JBoss project (tools, cache, appserver, messaging, etc...) was 137,425 and this is an upper bound on the JBoss Server data. You can also poke around for specific files; for example, 10,027 for jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip or 23,274 for jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip.

GeoMap Data

Registration Data

Downloads from Sun have optional registration and we have been doing this since Nov '07. I'll create a graph later in the week, in the meantime, the data for September is as follows:

• Monthly, Unique Registrations: GFv2 - 36,648, GFv3 - 15,224. Both are new records.
• Cumulative, Non-unique: GF v2 - 537,166; GFv3 - 188,493
• Accumulated, Unique Registrations Combined: GFv2 and GFv3 - 387,384

Update Center Data

Update Center Pings - N/A at the moment; will update when I get the data.

Caveats and Comments

Although the trends shown here and elsewhere have methodological limitations, I believe they are accurate indicators as they all point in the same direction.

On Downloads:

• We mostly count completed downloads, but, starting in 2009, some of the tools numbers are attempted d/ls.
• We count downloads from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG, but not from our Maven Repositories.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions like Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris

On GeoMaps:

• IP addresses overcount due to dynamic IP allocation.
• IP addresses undercount due to firewalls and offline.
• We can only count activations through the the Admin consoles, in particular IDEs don't count, and more than 50% of the downloads come from tools bundles (see top section).

Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

This note provides a summary of GlassFish adoption statistics updated through May 2009. The numbers for May 2009 are down a bit from the record-breaking March 2009 but the overall pattern continues to be of growth. The drop seems to be mostly due to seasonal variations (i.e. Spring break) although possibly the Oracle announcement may have also caused some disruption.

Download Data

Data for GlassFish Server downloads from Jul'05 to May'09 is presented through two data sets, shown aggregated vertically: pure run-time bundles (Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, GlassFish Server, the Java EE SDK and the Java Application Platform SDK, etc) and tools bundles that include GlassFish (NetBeans, the Eclipse Bundle, etc). As a reference point, I'm also including the d/l stats for all versions of JBoss AppServer as reported by SourceForge.

GeoMap Data

Registration Data

Downloads from Sun have optional registration. I don't currently have monthly trend but the cumulative data as of this writing is:

• GlassFish v2 - 434,687
• GlassFish v3 - 129,707

Update Center Data

Update Center Pings - N/A at the moment; will update when I get the data.

Caveats and Comments

Although the trends shown here and elsewhere have methodological limitations, I believe they are accurate indicators as they all point in the same direction.

On Downloads:

• We mostly count completed downloads, but, starting in 2009, some of the tools numbers are attempted d/ls.
• We count downloads from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG, but not from our Maven Repositories.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions like Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris

On GeoMaps:

• IP addresses overcount due to dynamic IP allocation.
• IP addresses undercount due to firewalls and offline.
• We can only count activations through the the Admin consoles, in particular IDEs don't count, and more than 50% of the downloads come from tools bundles (see top section).

Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

A, not as quick as intended, post with my whereabouts and some highlights for next week:

Unconference -
Sunday afternoon, 1pm-7pm I'll be participating in our Unconference, where Alexis plays MC. The Unconference is a very low key event and should be a lot of fun; register and join us... then we transfer to The Thirsty Bear for food, drinks and conversation from 7pm till 10pm.

CommunityOne -
Monday is the beginning of CommunityOne and I'll be there the whole day. The keynote is by Dave and John on Cloud and OpenSolaris; don't miss it as it will include several announcements, including the formal launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06.

Monday is also my only formal presentation this year (yeah! that means I get to enjoy the rest of the show): I will be talking about Sun's GlassFish Portfolio in S307894 (10:50am, Hall E 135 ). I chose to make the presentation a mix of Community status and Product overview because I think that synergy is what drives GlassFish. I will cover the adoption indicators for GlassFish and show evidence of its growth; I then talk about the projects and products in Sun GlassFish Portfolio explaining the value of moving from user to customer. I then do a very quick pass over the status of all the different projects. I will also include a couple of pre-announcements and clues of events later in the week.

The rest of Monday is full of sessions, many of them about OpenSolaris and Cloud. Two sessions I'm personally interested are Guido's S307145 on Python 3000 retrospective and Frank's S307160 Jython and Django. The day ends with the OpenSolaris party, which is the main party this year.

JavaOne -
JavaOne is as always, very busy and very good, and GlassFish, family and friends is very well represented. Below I'll just highlight a handful of events; for additional links, check Arun's series of short videoblogs (great idea although I am not there because we could not align our schedules), and his list of sessions plus my Additional Links.

Each day has its own keynote and all of them seem worth attending; not just for what they say but how they say it, specially after the oracle announcement. Of course, Tuesday morning's Sun keynote is a must attend, with Jonathan and "a special guest or two", so get there early. The afternoon technical keynote with Bob includes several demos from our team, so don't miss those either! The rest of the Tuesday is full of sessions and BOFs; as usual it is very hard to choose which ones to attend, so I'll just highlight Jerome's TS-4923, with an great technical overview of GFv3.

Wednesday starts with the Ericsson's keynote in the morning; Ericsson is our main partner with SailFin and we share the same vision of converged SIP/HTTP applications. The afternoon keynote is Eric on JavaFX and its a good time to see how that story looks like now. My highlights are for Kohsuke's TS-5301 (Hudson in the Cloud and the Swarm) and BOF-5105 (Hudson Community), Jacob and Vivek's TS-4921 (Scripting on GlassFish). Wednesday also has a Roberto and Bill's BOF-4483 on JavaEE 6, and a Java EE 6 sneak peek event - drop by the GlassFish pod to get an invite.

Thursday has the (first ever!) keynote by Microsoft on Software + Services: The Next Application Platform, and the afternoon is by IBM on Extreme Transaction Processing and Elasticity. My GF highlight for that day would be the BOF-1721 (meet the GF team), we will all be there - and I believe there will be handouts there.

Friday has James' traditional toy show; always very entertaining (for geeks!). And Ludo lucks out with one of the last but certainly not least! sessions TS-5055 (Eclipse and GlassFish).

Hope to see many of you next week!

Barcelona FC did it again... and now they are Triple Champions. It's not just great players, but they are playing incredibly well as a team. Today there are articles about the win all over the web but my favorite picture is this one, by Nick Potts/PA (via Associated Press, seen at NYT). I think it captures very well the team spirit and the personality of Pep Guardiola. Big smiles all over; a sense of a job well done. Go Pep! ... and the same goes for our own GlassFish Team; very proud of being in the same team with all of you!

This note provides a summary of GlassFish adoption statistics updated through April 2009. Although the trends shown here and elsewhere have methodological limitations, I believe they are accurate indicators as they all point in the same direction.

The numbers for April 2009 are down a bit from the record-breaking March 2009 but the overall pattern continues to be of growth. The drop seems to be mostly due to seasonal variations (i.e. Spring break) although possibly the Oracle announcement may have also caused some disruption.

Download Data

The graphs below show monthly download data from Jul'05 through Apr'09 with Y axis normalized to 900K per month; images link to a larger image for further inspection.

Data for GlassFish Server is presented through two data sets, shown aggregated vertically: the first set includes pure-runtime bundles (Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, GlassFish Server, the Java EE SDK and the Java Application Platform SDK, etc) while the second set includes tools bundles that include GlassFish (NetBeans, the Eclipse Bundle, etc). As a reference point, I'm also including the d/l stats for all versions of JBoss AppServer as reported by SourceForge.

Downloads during Apr'09 totaled 186,287 for run-time bundles and 462,597 for tools bundles for a grand total of 648,884. Downloads of all versions of JBoss AS totaled 73,612. The best month for run-time bundles was Mar'09 with 250,756; that for tools bundles was Apr'08 with 695,550, and the one for the combined number was Apr '08 with 882,489. The best month for JBoss 5.0 in this period was Dec '08 with 126,989 downloads.

GeoMap Data

We started aggregating the GlassFish Admin Console pings in January 2007 to create our GeoMap. The data is mostly useful to track size and geographic trends due to several limitations - we will have improved data after GFv3 releases.

Like with the download data, Apr'09 was a good month but not as good as Mar'09. Monthly Hits were 535,568 while monthly IPs were 49,156. Cumulative Hits were 8,127,921 and cumulative IPs reached 658,383.

Registration Data

Downloads from Sun have optional registration. I don't currently have monthly trend but the cumulative data as of this writing is:

• GlassFish v2 - 395,300
• GlassFish v3 - 102,046

Update Center Data

Update Center Pings - 120,954 in April (new high); total of 729,365 users.

Caveats and Comments

On Downloads:

• We mostly count completed downloads, but, starting in 2009, some of the tools numbers are attempted d/ls.
• We count downloads from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG, but not from our Maven Repositories.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions like Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris

On GeoMaps:

• IP addresses overcount due to dynamic IP allocation.
• IP addresses undercount due to firewalls and offline.
• We can only count activations through the the Admin consoles, in particular IDEs don't count, and more than 50% of the downloads come from tools bundles (see top section).

Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

A common metric for community adoption is "mailing list traffic". GlassFish has many projects but the largest volume is in a few and we try to consistently archive everything via MarkMail, so, a quick check gives over 5K/month of USER aliases: USERS; adding the corresponding DEV aliases we get close to 7K/month: USERS+DEV.

I am not trying to be exhaustive but to get a rough measure of the aggregate size; please let me know if I missed any obvious high-volume mailing list.

At the Santiago Bernabéu: Barça 6 - Real Madrid 2.

With four weeks to go, La Liga is Barça 85, Real 79. 100 goals and 85 points from 34 matches. Nice, very nice :-).

Some articles: • Match Report (FCB - in catalan) • Match Report (FCB - in english) • Superb Barca destroy rivals Real (BBC) • Henry & Messi imperious (ESPN) • La Liga - El Barça pulveriza todos los récords en Chamartín (EFE - in spanish)

Now, back to our usual topics :-)

This note provides a summary of the GlassFish download statistics from July 2005 until March 2009; previous entries are labeled download+statistics. The trends shown here, like those of other adoption indicators, are constrained by methodological limitations, but they are all pointing the same direction so they are likely right.

Caveats and Comments

• We mostly count completed downloads, but, starting in 2009, some of the tools numbers are attempted d/ls.
• We count downloads from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG, but not from our Maven Repositories.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions like Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris
• Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

Overall, March 2009 was an excellent month for GlassFish. The data for April 2009 is not yet in but I expect some negative impact from the IBM rumor and the Oracle announcement.

Charts

Below are 5 charts presenting 3 sets of monthly download statistics from Jul'05, through Mar '09. The Y axis is normalized to 900K per month to simplify comparisons and the images link to a larger image for further inspection.

GlassFish AppServer in SDKs

This chart shows downloads of the GlassFish Server either by itself (Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and GlassFish Server) or in bundles like the Java EE SDK and the Java Application Platform SDK. There were 250,756 downloads of GlassFish-only SDKs in Mar '09; this is a new record. Other local peaks correspond to Java EE 5/GFv1, GFv1U1, J1'07, GFv2, GFv2U1 and GFv2U2.

GlassFish AppServer in Tools

GlassFish is included in, and is the default container for, the most popular bundles of NetBeans 6.1, NB 6.0.1, NB 6.1 and NB 6.5 - I only count those from bundles including GF. NetBeans 6.x has been very popular. The GlassFish portion of these d/l numbers peaked in Apr '08 with 695,550. There were 593,521 downloads of GF through Tools SDKs in Mar '09; this is the 3rd largest number so far.

GlassFish AppServer - Combined

This table just adds the previous two. The top combined number was Apr '08 with 882,489. There were 844,277 total downloads of GF in Mar '09; second highest number so far.

JBoss AppServer - From SourceForge

Finally, as a reference point, the d/l stats for All JBoss AS, as reported by SourceForge. JBoss 5.0 was released in Dec '08 and that has been the best month in the period reported here. The total for all versions in that month was 126,989. There were 95,136 downloads of all versions of JBoss in Mar '09.

Combined Chart

This one just collects the last two charts together.

This note provides a summary of the GlassFish download statistics from July 2005 until February 2009; previous entries are labeled download+statistics. The trends shown here, like those of other adoption indicators, are constrained by methodological limitations, but they are all pointing the same direction so they are likely right.

Caveats and Comments

Caveats:

• We mostly count completed downloads, but, starting in 2009, some of the tools numbers are attempted d/ls.
• We count downloads from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG, but not from our Maven Repositories.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions like Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris
• Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

Corrections

• The NetBeans numbers for January 2009 are now included.

Comments

• A page flow problem impacted one of the SDK bundles for most of February; that has now been fixed.
• February is a short month.

Charts

Below are 5 charts presenting 3 sets of monthly download statistics from Jul'05, through Feb '09. The Y axis is normalized to 900K per month to simplify comparisons and the images link to a larger image for further inspection.

GlassFish AppServer in SDKs

This chart shows downloads of the GlassFish Server either by itself (Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and GlassFish Server) or in bundles like the Java EE SDK and the Java Application Platform SDK. The peak around May '06 (223,079) was the release of Java EE 5 and GFv1 at J1 '06. Other local peaks correspond to GFv1U1, J1'07, GFv2, GFv2U1 and GFv2U2. There were 192,776 downloads of GlassFish-only SDKs in Feb '09.

GlassFish AppServer in Tools

GlassFish is included in, and is the default container for, the most popular bundles of NetBeans 6.1, NB 6.0.1, NB 6.1 and NB 6.5 - I only count those from bundles including GF. NetBeans 6.x has been very popular. The GlassFish portion of these d/l numbers peaked in Apr '08 with 695,550. There were 456,520 downloads of GF through Tools SDKs in Feb '09.

GlassFish AppServer - Combined

This table just adds the previous two. The top combined number was Apr '08 with 882,489. There were 649,296 total downloads of GF in Feb '09.

JBoss AppServer - From SourceForge

Finally, as a reference point, the d/l stats for All JBoss AS, as reported by SourceForge. JBoss 5.0 was released in Dec '08 and that has been the best month in the period reported here. The total for all versions in that month was 126,989. There were 89,020 downloads of all versions of JBoss in Feb '09.

Combined Chart

This one just collects the last two charts together.

This note provides a summary of the GlassFish download statistics from July 2005 until January 2009. Previous entries are dated March 6th, 2008, September 7th, 2008 and October 8th, 2008. The data point for "Tools" for Jan 09 is missing; I'll provide an update when that data is available.

Introduction

This entry complements other GlassFish adoption indicators; I tag relevant entries in TheAquarium as adoption. All indicators have limitations but my usual comment is that if all the indicators are pointing the same direction, they are probably right.

Some Caveats:

• The SDK d/l numbers are based on completed downloads.
• The Tools d/l numbers used to be completed but in the last couple of months changed to attempted.
• Counted downloads are from Sun.Com, Java.Net and NetBeans.ORG.
• We do not count downloads from our Maven Repository.
• We do not count Ubuntu, Solaris or OpenSolaris distributions.
• Some months I've counted a small (around 4K) number of d/ls from Solaris Express; I need to do a normalization pass.
• GlassFish is freely redistributable and we don't track other distributions.

Overall, I believe these are solid numbers, but if we discover a problem I will correct it and let you know.

Corrections and General Comments

Known Issues - I have not included the NetBeans numbers for January 2009 because we need to update our scripts to account for a change in the way NetBeans uses mirrors. I'll provide an updated chart as soon as the data is available. Note that the "Tools" data from Nov '08 and Dec '08 may also change.

Additional Comments - Downloads usually drop during the holiday season (late Dec/early Jan); this year is a bit unusual in that, although the worldwide financial situation seems to have encouraged more people to take a break between Christmas and New Year, overall, the d/ls didn't really drop.

New Charts

Next there are 3 data sets, collected into 5 charts with commentaries. The charts show monthly downloads starting in July 2005, right after we launched the GlassFish project, and going through last month, January 2009. The Y axis is normalized to 900K per month to simplify comparisons. The images link to a larger image for further inspection.

GlassFish AppServer in SDKs

This chart shows downloads of the GlassFish Server either by itself (Sun Java System Application Server, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and GlassFish Server) or in bundles like the Java EE SDK and the Java Application Platform SDK. The peak around May '06 (223,079) was the release of Java EE 5 and GFv1 at J1 '06. Other local peaks correspond to GFv1U1, J1'07, GFv2, GFv2U1 and GFv2U2. D/l numbers for Jan '09 were 178,494.

GlassFish AppServer in Tools

GlassFish is included in, and is the default container for, the most popular bundles of NetBeans 6.1, NB 6.0.1, NB 6.1 and NB 6.5 - I only count those from bundles including GF. NetBeans 6.x has been very popular. The GlassFish portion of these d/l numbers for Apr '08 was 695,550. The corresponding number for Dec '08 was 531,019 - the Jan '09 numbers are not yet available.

GlassFish AppServer - Combined

This table just adds the previous two. The combined number for Apr '08 was 882,489 and for Dec '08, 706,868 - the Jan '09 number is awaiting the NetBeans number.

JBoss AppServer - From SourceForge

Finally, as a reference point, from SourceForge, d/l stats for All JBoss AS. JBoss 5.0 was released in Dec '08; the total for all versions in that month was 126,989; 61,266 of them were JBoss 5.0 GA. D/ls of all versions in Jan '09 were 83,926; 41,564 of them were 5.0 GA.

Combined Chart

This one just collects the last two charts together.

Below are the top vote getters for each category in the SOA Readers' Choice award as of 8:50am PT, Sun, Dec 21st, 2008. Previous snapshots are from: Aug 31st and Dec 14th, 2008 - I have partial data from intermediate dates that I have not yet transcribed but they roughly match the data from Aug 31st. Context for the snapshots is explained here.

As you can see, IBM's products are back on top in all but 3 categories: IDE, JAXP and SOA Tool. I'll try to find a moment to snapshot the results before the poll closes on the 31st. If you want to vote before then, here is the link to the vote page.

Last week there was a big change in the Sys-Con's Readers Choice positions; so this weekend I am doing a snapshot (like I did on August 31st) in case I later want to refer to it. Below are the top vote getters for each category as of 2:50pm PT, Sun, Dec 14th, 2008.

All GlassFish and Friends projects are on the first position except for Hudson (behind IBM's Rational Functional Tester) and OpenSSO (behind IBM's DataPower Security Gateway). If you have opinions, you can make your vote count.