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support for ARM started, this number constantly increased to 600. I
think it stays there for the last 2 years.

All the time we experienced "waves". The first significant increase was
in 2003, caused by

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/130206&tid=126

Although about Contiki, it made Ethernut and Nut/OS quite popular.

After elektor published its articles about the project, more people
became interested in the ARM port.

Beside that, I can confirm, that there is a strong relation between
development activities and popularity. Due to Sourceforge statistics
(hurray, I found them again), we currently experience an increasing
number of write transactions in the SVN repository in this year. Ignore
the large peek in the beginning, that was due to restructuring the
repository. Also note, that before 02.2009 we used CVS. Thus, I expect
another significant increase of our user base in the next year. This
will be driven too by Thiago's support of the AVR32 platform.

An all time statistics of Sourceforge downloads is available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=34079&ugn=ethernut&mode=alltime&type=prdownload
But that mainly depends on publishing upgrades on this or related sites.
I think that most people discover ethernut.de directly via Google. Due
to its long term existence, significant links from other sites and
constant updating (yeah...well...almost), its ranking on many specific
keywords is excellent.

My company's turnover, since 2001 increasingly based on selling
Ethernuts, made several jumps in the past, sometimes 50% or even 100%
increase per year. 2007 and 2008 business remains at the same level and
we are currently experiencing a drop. Though, today Nut/OS is less bound
to our products and egnite doesn't offer any SAM7X board, for example,
which is a great target for Nut/OS. Good for Nut/OS, less good for egnite.

Nowadays an increasing number of links had been observed from Wikipedia,
although the poor entries found in a few languages shouldn't make us
really proud. Due to my relations with egnite.de, I definitely won't do
any initial work on Wikipedia. If any neutral person thinks, that Nut/OS
is as relevant as other entries already there and starts working on this
in English or German, I may jump in (hint! hint!) ;-)

Harald