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Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:18:23 GMT
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lpieniazek@IHATESPAMnovera.com
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Tim Courtney wrote:
> Lar said:
> > I think he was being sarcastic. Project is probably installed on 4000
> > times as many PCs as all the LDraw compatible tools put together.
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> Is that an educated guess of a figure? ;)
It's a SWAG. Probably exaggerated by one order of magnitude, on
reflection... Fairly educated, though. Let's work the LDraw side... how
many LDrawers do you think we have? I'll let you make that guess, you'd
know better than I, but I'd be surprised if it was much more than 1000
at this point.
As to the other side, 80-90% of all project managers use it. That's a
stat I got from Project Management Institute in an article about project
management tools. They were estimating that somewhere between 1 in 5 and
1 in 100 PMs were members of PMI. PMI has 50,000 members.
(http://www.pmi.org/) And I know that on projects that *I* run, I make
EVERYONE on the project use Project, if only to review the plans and
submit actuals against estimates. Most PMs make at least the team leads
use it, so that's a scaleup of probably 2-3
So: 50K * (5 to 100 non members of PMI) * (2 to 3 per team not PMs) *
80% tool penetration
is somewhere between 400,000 and 12,000,000 Project users. Using 1K
Ldraw users is 400 to 12,000 times as many Project users. So 4,000
wasn't a bad shoot from the hip answer.
PS : We NEED to see if we can get your posting fixed, you never seem to
be threaded right when viewed from a newsreader... did you ever track
down what the issue was there?
ObCredentials: Former PMI member, former Project Manager, former Program
Manager, fairly skilled Project user, fairly skilled user population
estimator
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Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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| (...) Is that an educated guess of a figure? ;) (...) Yeah... .mpl (Multi-Part LDraw) ? (...) Agreed. (...) That would be a good thing. The only argument I see against changing them is tradition, to which I say, 'poo.' -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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