Paul pushed out the latest GF Admin GeoMap to reflect data from Feb 07 to May 08. A quick region-by-region comparison shows that the largest increase is in Latin America; Colombia grew more than 100%!

Month-to-month growth for several areas, based on hits:

• US - 18% • Europe - 28% • Asia/Pacific - 18% • Australia - 7% • Latin America - 40%

The Feb '08 data has been added into our GF Admin Console GeoMap: • 303,673 - Pings in Feb '08 • 2,184,074 - Total cumulative pings (Since Feb '07) • 36,394 - Unique IPs in Feb '08 • 287,098 - Total Unique IPs (Since Feb '07)

We also have the download numbers and they are our best so far; even better than Last Month. I'm composing a longer note with more details that I'll push in a few days; stay tuned.

The latest GlassFish GeoMap based on Admin Console hits is out (Live Map). The graph at the top is the new hits for the month. There is a big jump that is partially due to increased adoption (see below) and partly due to new functionality in the admin console that generates more hits. The graph at the bottom shows the new IP addresses; the growth is directly attributable to more active users but the absolute numbers are not too meaningful (except for being a strong lower bound). January 2008 is the best month so far, even though the first days in January are still holidays in many countries. GlassFish v2 U1 has a new Update Center mechanism that gives us a better lower bound; unfortunately, we have not yet pushed the associated GeoMap outside the firewall and the internal server seems down. I'll consult the data and will update this entry tomorrow.

BTW, since several communities inside Sun are using this GeoMap software we are going to open source it so we can all more easily collaborate on it - and other groups can use it too. Stay tuned.

December is usually a slow month and this shows in the number of posts at USERS@gf (927, down from 1359); but not in the latest GeoMap (thanks, Jamey), which shows more IP hits (218715 up from 171182) and only slightly fewer IP addresses (34926, down from 36082). Early indications from registrations (see [1]) suggest good Download Statistics.

As a reference, I checked on USERS@Tomcat and their posts also went down in December but not as much as with GlassFish, which I attribute to the larger percentage of enterprise users in GlassFish, but, we will see...

The data from the Admin console has the usual overcount/undercount problems. Now that the UpdateCenter machinery (see intro blog) is working properly in GFv2UR1 we should be able to get more accurate adoption statistics; I'll report back in a few weeks.