This presentation compiles various statistics crunched through web crawlers on various marketplaces (VMware, EC2, VirtualBox, Parallels).

1. Virtual Appliance
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arketplace
stats
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G.WINDELS
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2. Marketplace variety
 “Marketplaces” are booming
 EachVA-related vendor is at a different point of development
 The idea is to compile data across leadingVA marketplaces
 VMware (www.vmware.com/appliances)
 VirtualBox (http://virtualboximages.com/vdi/index?page=0)
 Amazon EC2
(developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?
categoryID=171
 Parallels (www.parallels.com/ptn/download/va/?
sort=update&lsort=&categ=
 This represents about 2500 appliances

3. Protocol
 Raw data was captured via web crawlers on marketplaces respective
websites
 Metrics include operating system, submitter, appliance category
 Data was cleansed at the appliance level to reflect exact appliance
distribution

4. Number of appliances

5. APPLIANCE OS’s –Windows vs. Linux

6. APPLIANCE OS’s – Ubuntu vs. rest of the world
(W/Windows)

7. APPLIANCE OS’s –VMWARE

8. APPLIANCE OS’s –Virtualbox

9. APPLIANCE OS’s – EC2

10. APPLIANCE OS’s – EC2

11. APPLIANCE CATEGORIES -VMWARE

12. APPLIANCE CATEGORIES - parallels

13. Top10 Submitters – EC2
1. Bitnami.org (108)
2. Jumbbox.com (54)
3. Turnkeylinux.com (37)
4. Elasticserver.com (19)
5. Independant (Eric Hammond) (18)
6. IBM AWS (12)
7. RightImage (11)
8. Amazon (11)
9. Oracle (10)
10. Amazon AWS (9)

14. Top10 Submitters –VMware
1. Bitnami.org (157)
2. Bagside.com/bagvapp (86)
3. Independant (58)
4. Jumbbox.com (57)
5. Vmplanet.net (53)
6. Tuxdistro.com (41)
7. Turnkeylinux.com (41)
8. Thouthpolice.co.uk (39)
9. Vitual Appliance Administrator (37)
10. Chrysaor.info (26)