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 Luckily most of those are outdated anyway.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 <dgcaller at earthlink.net> 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 > _______________________________________________ > >
