How many FM users are there?

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

Diane,

A friend forwarded an article to me with more substantial and credible statistics. Econtent magazine ran an article June of last year which quoted 800,000 FrameMaker users and 50,000 Arbortext Users. (Ironically, my "liberal" extrapolation would have put users at 780,000, so I wasn't too far off!)

You can view the WWW online version of this article at the following URL:
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=15686

... Hope that this helps. 
 
 
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>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:28:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>From: Diane Gaskill <dgcaller at earthlink.net>
>Subject: How many FM users are there?
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
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>Hi all,
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>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.
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>Thanks,
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>Diane