How many seats has SWX sold?

Do any of you know where to get statistics on how many seats of SWX have
been sold? Just curious to know the market share that the different solid
modelers have.

 

Check this out:
http://www.cadwire.net/commentary/?29569

interesting discussion on the politics of releasing such numbers and
what they actually do, or don't mean.

 

oh yes, and to get the general gist and flow of the discussion, read the
article from bottom to top...

 

Yep,.. "There are lies, then there are damn lies",.. and by golly, Ade$k
marketing is good at it.

...

 

Don't sell yourself short.

jon

 

It woks in both directions though. There are plenty of Soldworks
seats out there that aren't being used, and plenty of Inventor seats
not being used. Another factor to look at is educational seats. All
companies will include educational seats in their total, but if you
look closely you'll see the educational count.

Autodesk released the following press release about a month ago:
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), the world's leading design software and
digital content company, today announced a milestone in the success of
its Autodesk Inventor® and Autodesk Inventor® Series software, as the
company reached a total installed base of 258,463 licenses
sold—102,371 commercial and 156,092 educational licenses—since the
software was introduced less than four years ago.

Solidworks released the following press release in June:
CONCORD, Mass., June 23, 2003 — SolidWorks today continued its
dominance of the three dimensional (3D) mechanical design market when
it announced it has shipped 250,000 licenses of its flagship software
since 1995.

 

This is exactly what I'm after. My brother works for a PTC reseller and is
constantly badgering me on why I'm not using Pro/E. Well, I reply, I used
Pro/E for two years at my last job along with Pro/Intralink and my
department's productivity went down 50% from where we were with Mechanical
Desktop. He loves to spew the same jargon and BS our PTC salesmen did. I
just wanted some BS to spew back at him such as these sales figures.

I plan on having myself a very merry Christmas. Hope you have one too.