{"id":842,"date":"2008-06-17T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:12:49","slug":"firefox-download-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/17\/firefox-download-day","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Download Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its the Firefox Download Day. That not only means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> 3 is out, it also means that they&#8217;re trying to set a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/en-US\/worldrecord\">world record<\/a>, by getting the most downloads of a software package in 24-hours. There&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/en-US\/worldrecord\">world map<\/a>, similar to the kind you might have seen in presentations by Jonathan Schwartz (ok, I prefer seeing the dots per region, rather than the Firefox one :P).<\/p>\n<p>The pending general availability of MySQL 5.1 was announced in April at the MySQL Conference. While I&#8217;ve seen 1,400+ attendees (a pleasant problem for the event organisers, as they scurried to get people into overflow rooms, and herd the crowd during food times) show up at the Tech Days in the Philippines, I&#8217;m wondering if we can achieve 3 million downloads (the current Firefox counter) within 24-hours? Database software just isn&#8217;t as sexy as a web browser&#8230; Thats not to say we cannot aim high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would you celebrate the release of MySQL 5.1 GA?<\/strong> Worldwide release parties (ala Ubuntu)? Set an aim for &#8220;n-number of downloads&#8221; in 24-hours?<\/p>\n<p>P\/S: Like live stats? Look at the Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com\/\">Download Counter<\/a>. Its live, and very cool<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Firefox%20Download%20Day&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Ffirefox-download-day&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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That's about USD$12 million dollars! I quote, from the report: Savings on licensing fee alone by adopting OpenOffice.org have already exceeded RM12 million, which is based on the total installed seats of 12,760 at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1821,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/05\/open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm188-million","url_meta":{"origin":842,"position":1},"title":"Open Source Saves Malaysian Government RM188 Million","date":"5\/7\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in January 2009, we found out that the Malaysian Government had saved about RM40 million using open source. In a little over a year, that number has been topped: over the past six years, the total costs savings are now quoted to be RM188.39 million (USD$58.54 million)! 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