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Observations from two year of ping-backs from JBoss Tools users
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new comment by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/Antoine_h">Antoine Herzog</a> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2012/07/30/observations-from-two-year-of-ping-backs-from-jboss-tools-users#comment-10500">View all comments on this blog post</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>it is very interesting.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>For the conclusion, I think it is important to say : "those are the figures of the people that accepted the pings.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>These are "where are the users that explicitly say “Yes - please send pings” ".</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>These are "what OS is used by the users that explicitly say “Yes - please send pings” ".</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>**************</p><p>I think it is jumping a bit to fast to the conclusion : "that is the OS that is most used by the users", "that is where the users are in the world"...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>two hypothesis :</p><p> - what if the Linux users are much more keen on refusing this kind of enquiries/pings... ?</p><p>If the prefer being confidential, not letting a system ping somewhere, to provide info about them, etc...?</p><p>What if the users with windows OS are much more letting the "system drive what's going on", and more keen on saying "yes" to any option asked during installation ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p> - about the countries : what if the US and European countries are much more spoiled people countries, saying : no need to provide information to the community... others will do it...</p><p>what if the other countries, like india, china, brasil... are much more keen on providing information, to contribute and work hard to enhance the tools and community softwares.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>These are only hypothésis.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>They show it is worth being carefull when using these figure.</p><p>It is worth thinking of what can really be said with the figures, and what is some extension, even if with high confidence.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>***********</p><p>When I see that so many users use eclipse with screen resolution of 1366 x 768, I wonder what they do.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>May like me, during the week end, using the portable pc of my girl friend, when I change a few texts on my web site :  <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.sysemo.com/Sysemo-expertise-portails-jboss-portal.php">Consultant JBoss AS7, J2EE, JBoss Portal and GateIn (JSR-286), JSF, Richfaces, Drools, BRMS</a>.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>It is only a few PHP pages.</p><p>I use eclipse because it is my main tool for consulting on JBoss.... and it is convenient to have a project, edit the file text (for php), and use ant to send this to the server hosting the pages.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Does this means this use is worth to be taken into account for the strategy of the development of the tool ?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>***********</p><p>These are only comments, ...</p><p>globally, the idea of making this ping and retrieving some information is nice... and the figures are interesting.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks,...</p><p>Antoine</p></div>
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