Omniture & Fedora

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 29 16:18:27 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:16 -0500, Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:
> Sure,
> 
> Omniture uses what I call a "client side" tracking technique using 
> javascript to dynamically markup an image tag with a query string and 
> fetch that image from Omniture's servers sending data to them via the 
> query string.  Google and Yahoo offer similar services with less 
> sophisticated features, but the approach is effectively the same.  The 
> data is stored on Omniture's servers and available for reporting in near 
> real time especially when it comes to basic traffic data.  It is 
> probably important to note that Omniture and awstats are not mutually 
> exclusive.  One is server based and the other runs on the webpage 
> sending data to a hosted platform.
> 
> I would have to dig into details to completely expose what our license 
> agreement with Omniture is as is applies to the usage of their software 
> since is a service that we buy from them.  Omniture is more akin to 
> Salesforce.com and Google Analytics. 
> 

Oh, right. This is where we got in trouble around about FC6, wasn't it?
B/c it is more or less a tracking image?

-sv





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