On 25-Jan-2002, I started a thread with the subject "Who uses Amanda?" I
got many answers up through 30-Jan. One of the most comprehensive came
from John Jackson:
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There are currently 1187 addresses on the amanda-users mailing list,
and 561 on amanda-hackers. Running that all through uniq (and some
other Perl magic), I came up with 1257 "domains" represented.
Some caveats about that number. Not all sites running Amanda subscribe
to
the mailing lists, but not everybody subscribed to the list runs
Amanda.
Also, some of the addresses are clearly internal mailing lists, so the
number of people who actually get the E-mail is certainly higher.
Looking through the list, paying particular attention to .com's (since
they are so much more important the rest of us peons :-), I see
several
names I recognize right away:
3com.com (3com)
adp.com (ADP)
attbi.com (AT&T)
bbn.com (BBN)
boeing.com (Boeing)
corning.com (Corning)
cypress.com (Cypress)
daimlerchrysler.com (Chysler)
dell.com (Dell)
fedex.com (Federal Express)
ge.com (General Electric)
goodyear.com (GoodYear)
harris.com (Harris)
honeywell.com (Honeywell)
hp.com (Hewlitt-Packard)
ibm.com (IBM)
informix.com (Informix)
kodak.com (Kodak)
mot.com (Motorola)
nokia.com (Nokia)
nsc.com (National Semiconductor)
oracle.com (Oracle)
philips.com (Phillips)
redhat.com (Red Hat)
ricoh.com (Ricoh)
siemens.com (Siemans)
sun.com (Sun)
trw.com (TRW)
valinux.com (VA Linux)
xerox.com (Xerox)
I'm sure there's a few billion dollars of worth floating around there,
and I only looked at the U.S. .com entries. There are almost 500
international entries and another hundred .edu's (and if you don't
think
universities are in it for the money ... :-).
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu
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You should be able to search the archives with this specific subject
and find all the responses. Let me know if I can help in any way.
-Kevin Zembower
>>> Toni Schlichting <toni AT schlichting DOT net> 08/26/02 03:59PM >>>
Meanwhile I prepared a list of projects in which Amanda was used. As
F-O-M doesn't provide much information I followed a recommendation of
Dietmar Goldbeck who suggested to search google like this:
http://www.google.de/search?num=50&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=amanda+datensicherung
I exchanged the term "datensicherung" with "backup" and ended up with a
huge number of hits. Then I searched the list for entries which gave a
strong indication like this one:
http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/manual/install/
Where I could find the following statement:
At the LII we use and like the Amanda backup software
This finally lead to an entry in my list. What do you think about the
idea to contact all the admins who placed those nice statements on the
web-sites, to make them enter their project into F-O-M?
Best Regards
Toni
Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 12:54:22 (-0500), Brandon D. Valentine
wrote: ]
>
>>Subject: Re: sites using amanda - possible survey
>>
>>On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>>
>>>I've not seen a survey done in this mailing list, but I wonder if
one would
>>>be appropriate to get a reasonable answer to this question. Then we
could
>>>put a "as of date XYZ, amanda was known to be in use in these
organizations"
>>>into the F-O-M.
>>>
>>I did this several months ago:
>>
>>http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/319.html
>>
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