Hi Diane,
Adobe should know how many licenses they have _sold_. How many are
_using_ FM is a different matter. I guess they are somewhat fewer. I
base that assumption on the fact that you can get used FM second hand
(including all paperwork). This leads me to assume that a (small?)
number of licenses are no longer in use.
Also, CDs get lost and Adobe probably do not want to replace a lost CD
even if you have all the information about the CD, the invoice etc. At
least, I don't know anyone who has tried to get a software company of
this size to send a replacement CD.
Example from my experience:
My IT department lost our copy of Adobe CS1 (which is 50-100% more
expensive here than in the US, thanks to the centuries old feudal
system these so-called "International businesses" commonly use -- they
sometimes seem not to have heard of the Internet!), but luckily it
showed up again nearly a year later.
They have lost a lot of other software CDs. Luckily most of those are
outdated anyway.
I guess not many are using illegal copies of FM. FM is simply not a
kind of software that you can use powerfully on your own without a lot
of learning and support. Which makes it awkward, to say the least, to
use an illegal copy.
Start a project to have FM users register as users (anonymous to
Adobe, of course, if there should be any people actually trying to use
an illegal copy!).
However, I guess that this would be a difficult task, and, many, as
with our company, are using it only temporarily, being replaced by
others etc; which would probably mean that we could only expect a
maximum of 1/4-1/2 of the actual users to register. I would guess even
fewer.
<grin>So why not get the guys who write "Numbers" to come up with a
formula to calculate the users. It takes less than an hour on the
show! </grin>
Seats here: 6. Users: 3 (for now).
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Iceland
On 5/9/07, Diane Gaskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I know Adobe keeps all of their numbers a Big Secret, but I am creating a
comparison spreadsheet in my research on FM vs AT and I need to have a general
idea of how many FM seats have been installed. FM has been in use since the
late 1980s and I would estimate at least 100K seats. If anyone on the list can
provide an more accurate number, I'd really appreciate the information.
Incidentally, PTC says they have 20K installed seats.
Thanks,
Diane
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