From the conjecture of the actual number of shopex users to the survival status of software enterprises

From the conjecture on the actual number of shopex users to the survival status of software companies, shopex claims that their number of installed machines is 0.2 million. How did they calculate it? If you search for the keyword "powered by shopex" on Google, about 0.25 million results will be displayed. Is that the result? However, the results include static pages in shopex online stores, that is, a product generates a page, and a page is a result on Google, if you go to the Google results page by page, the page appears on page 1" To provide more efficient search services, we omit webpages similar to the first 467 items. If you need more detailed results, please search for all here ."That is to say, the other results are related to the 467 websites. Is there only 467 online stores running with shopex? Of course not, because the keyword "powered by shopex" can be deleted from the template. Most people who do business do not want to know that they are using free software, therefore, the 467 online stores found by Google are only a small number of online stores that are willing to let people know that they are using shopex, or test online stores. They have not started operation, nor have they deleted the copyrighted ghost online stores, therefore, Google cannot count online stores that actually use shopex.

From another perspective, let's assume that a shopkeeper often pays attention to his online shop and has been striving to increase value for his own store, thereby increasing his turnover, when a new version of the online shop system is launched, such shopkeepers will upgrade the system as soon as possible after confirming that the version is stable, in order to give customers a better shopping experience, because the shopex upgrade requires that all the previous patches and intermediate versions be installed once. Otherwise, problems may occur, it is impossible to abandon the old version of the database to reinstall the official version, and the upgraded version will be used. In the shopex official forum "shopex online shop program, upgrade package and document release" section (Http://www.shopex.cn/bbs/thread.php? Fid-26.html,

Store system v4.7.1/v4.7.2rc --- Upgrade Program v4.7.2 released qingo 2007-12-11 08164By: qingo

It should be the maximum number of people who continuously use shopex, but the actual number still needs to be discounted, because many people click more than once and get a discount after more than yuan, will this number be too far behind the 0.2 million installation volume they announced?

We can also compare the number of online stores that Google is willing to find and let people know that they are using shopex. It can be seen that less than a tenth of the number can be justified by shopex. No wonder shopex has been working for six years, the so-called large user group does not have a similar Alliance activity, like the official establishment of the Business Alliance (Http://www.ishopex.cn/), Although in the official forumHttp://www.shopex.cn/bbs/read.php? Tid-70539.htmlThere have been more than 3 thousand clicks, but only more than two hundred stores joined in shangmeng. Why? Is there so few online stores using shopex? No, it is because if the shopkeeper is called to shopex and participates in the shopex activity, it is equivalent to powered by shopex. as the owner of the stakeholder, there is no obvious benefit, no one will re-launch the powered by shopex announcement in disguise and re-launch it with the Free Software signboard. Therefore, shopex is actually facing a very embarrassing dilemma. The user base that has been accumulated for six years should be in the harvest period, but it is a pity that it cannot be called on the user base, however, it is impossible to use the advantages of its user base to achieve profitability through cooperation with third parties.

Looking back at shopex in the past six years, let's look at today's shopex. For more information about the future of shopex, let readers further predict it!

Think about it, let's go all the way! If you are open-source, you cannot support your company for free. It cannot make money! Return to the traditional software company model as soon as possible!