--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Paul Reeves wrote:

> On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:00, marius popa wrote:
> > Something is strange with stats
> >
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?

group_id=9028&ugn=firebird&mode=week&type=prdownload

>
> Hey - looks good to me :-)
>
> FWIW, the imbalance is due entirely to downloads of
> Firebird-1.5.2.4731-Win32.exe
>
> Perhaps Fb has just been plugged in a magazine or newspaper article.

Over 40000 downloads in one hour? That must be some popular magazine!
Maybe Firebird has become compulsory at schools in China or a Firebird
virus has been distributed recently? Or is it the members of Firebird
Connect that has started downloading to make us claim that no other
database is anywhere near as popular as Firebird (or maybe Firebird is
simply more popular than I think)?

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