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Survey results for Sympa usages
During november 2006, we ask to sympa users to answer a survey because, as project leader, we need to have a good view of who is using Sympa and what are the usage of this application and what should we focus on.
Many thanks those of you who answer.
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Organization type repartition.
How long are you using Sympa
How long are you using Sympa | |
---|---|
less than 1 year (1) | 19.05% |
1 to 2 years | 15.08% |
2 to 3 years | 11.11% |
3 to 4 years | 21.43% |
4 to 5 years | 8.73% |
more than 5 years | 24.60% |
The answers show that Sympa users population is still growing.
Which version are you running?
CVS | 0.00% |
5.3aX | 3.17% |
5.2 | 35.71% |
5.1 | 23.02% |
5.0 | 2.38% |
4.X | 26.19% |
older version | 6.35% |
No answer | 3.17% |
We were surprised that nobody uses the CVS version. 2/3 of the installed versions are 5.X but there are still many old versions running. Most are installed from tarball (including some home made .deb orb .rpm). Binaries distribution seems marginal unless for debian. We really need better package. We will not procude them ourself. Contributors are welcome !
Operating system used
linux / debian | 34.92% |
linux / redhat | 26.19% |
linux / fedora | 3.97% |
linux / suze | 3.17% |
linux / mandriva | 0.79% |
Linux / other distrib | 8.73% |
solaris | 11.11% |
freeBSD | 7.94% |
macOs X | 0.79% |
No answer | 0.79% |
aix | 0.00% |
other | 1.59% |
Why did you choose sympa ?
The reasons why Sympa is choosen are mainly :
- because of it's rich web interface
- because of LDAP integration (mainly authentication)
- because of internationalization
- because it is much more better than mailman, majordomo or listserv
- because of external data source as definition of subscribers set
- because of S/MIME integration
- because of virtual host support
Of course we would like also to known “whay you did not choose Sympa but unfortunitly this question can't be part of such survey.
Service size
number of lists | number of virtual robots | bigest lists | numbers of registred subscribers | |
---|---|---|---|---|
average | 739 | 4.5 | 12.672 | 58.882 |
max | 24.000 | 235 | 200.000 | 430.000 |
Are you using database backend? Which one?
MySQL | 84.92% |
PostgreSQL | 11.90% |
Oracle | 1.59% |
other | 0.79% |
o answer | 0.79% |
Sybase | 0.00% |
SQL-Lite | 0.00% |
no RDBMS at all with my Sympa | 0.00% |
Great ! Nobody seems to use the old file style backend which is not supported anymore without big bugs. The other new information is that MySQL and postgrSQL are the main.
Are you running one sympa service with different servers ?
A very poor number of users uses more than one server in order to provide Sympa services. Thoses who are doing this does it for shigh-availability and security issues ; only one does it for load balancing. This mean that it is raisonnable to run a list server on a single server. Sympa does not consume so much server ressources.