SourceForge Global Traffic Distribution: France Up, Germany Down
SourceForge traffic distribution numbers are a good measure about how much attention and time people from different countries pay to find, download and possibly use open source software. US is still at the first place (15,84%),  followed by Brazil (9.16%), France (6.12%), Germany (5.8%) and eventually Italy (4.27%). The only real change in the top 5 is that France overtaken Germany, a sign that the French approach is paying off. BRIC countries collectively keeps holding over 18%.
Italy is steadily in the fifth position, below some details about
Rome (blue) is at the first place, followed by Milan, Turin, Naples, Florence (3.57%), Bologna (3.30%), Padova (2.8%), Palermo (2.6%), Catania (2.6%), Bari (2.18%).
Disclosure. I am a member of SourceForge advisory board.
Roberto Galoppini, and 
Phil Marshall 6:19 pm on May 27, 2011 Permalink
Roberto – thank you for sharing these insights on global source forge trends. Black Duck has been conducting related research and analysis and we’re holding a webinar next week to share some of the findings. Steve O’Grady from Redmonk will comment on Black Duck’s ‘language use by forge’ data and will likely draw some trending conclusions. Hope you can join us, Roberto! More details here:
http://bit.ly/m6Ms5y
Roberto Galoppini 9:37 am on May 28, 2011 Permalink
Hi Phil,
I just read excerpts of the Evans Data Global Development survey and I happened to know that Java is living a second youth these days in APAC and North America (but not here on the other side of the pond).
I always pay attention to BlackDuck webinars, and I will mention this one in the next blog entry about upcoming open source webinars.
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