If you have a look at their website it shows statical data
$25 Billion in transactions
60,000+ merchants
2,000+ extensions
2+ Million downloads
EDIT: just wanted to know where does magento get its data from!?
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Often numbers like these are sort of accurate guesstimates done by canvassing users. You should take this up with them directly, I'm sure they'll be happy to help.
Making wild claims like this without proof is also a good way to get sued for libel, btw.
wds
2010-06-28 08:21:28
I don't think they can sue you for posing a legitimate question. The question makes sense. I always wanted to know from where the marketing people get data that is so precise without a source :)
Elzo Valugi
2010-06-28 12:19:35
The first assertion (that magento "calls home") is what a company could object to. The question the user wanted to ask (how do they get this data) is indeed an interesting question. I've done some economic modelling, basically you guess.
wds
2010-06-28 13:11:48
@wds hmm so its a guess? hm
K001
2010-06-28 14:47:33
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Magento code is open source, meaning you can take a look at it any time. I worked with Magento for 3 months and I didn't notice any pingbacks and generally in open source projects developers avoid pingbacks. Especially in a eCommerce environment this could be a security breach and a potential source of information leakage. I assume Magento data are estimates and not real data provided by any monitoring tools in the code.
Magento is using OSL licence.
Elzo Valugi
2010-06-28 12:14:49