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SUMMARY OF SOFTWARE SURVEY TOTALS - 15th October 2003

The following tables present the total number of software packages used by projects. This information is gathered from the Technical Specification reports. Although the totals presented here accurately reflect the data that is contained in these forms, no guarantee can be made that the data accurately reflects the software usage of projects.

It is clear that in some cases the questions on the Technical Specification are ambiguous, hence a survey meant to detail software usage contains details of imaging hardware.

IMAGE CREATION

Adobe Debabelizer Photoshop

2

Adobe Illustrator

2

Adobe Photoshop

72

Adobe Premiere

1

AVID

1

Colour Factory

4

Colourflex

1

Corel Photopaint

1

Epson Twain

6

Fotostation

1

Imacon FlexColour

1

JASC Paintshop

1

KOFAX Ascent

1

Lasersoft Silverfast

10

Linotype CPS Colourfactory Pro

1

Macromedia Fireworks

4

Macromedia Freehand

1

Magic Match

4

Magiscan

3

Nikon View

4

Optibase encoder

1

Paint Shop Pro

4

Phase One

4

ProLector

1

ProScan Book, SRZ Berlin

1

Scandy Software

1

ScanWizard

1

Scitex Leaf Volaire

5

Vuescan

1

The most popular form of Image Creation software is the Adobe Photoshop product which is used by 72 projects.

The next most popular product is Lasersoft Silverfast (10 projects).

 

IMAGING HARDWARE

A3 Umax Powerlook 2100XL Pro

1

Covergold PS7000

1

Duoscan

2

Epson 1640 XL Pro scanner

1

Epson expression 1640 XL Pro scanner

1

Epson Perfection 2450 Photo Scanner

2

FinePix S1 Pro

1

HP Precision Scan Pro

2

HP Scanjet 7400c

2

Leaf Volare digital camera

2

Nikon 885

1

Nikon Coolpix 995 camera

3

Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED

2

Olympus digital camera

1

Umax Astra 2400S scanner

1

UMAX Magicscan

2

The table above details the various digital capturing hardware devices. The most popular choices being the Nikon Coolpix 995 digital camera (3 projects), UMAX Magicscan (2 projects), Epson Perfection 2450 Photo Scanner (2 projects), HP Scanjet 7400c (2 projects), Nikon Coolpix 995 camera (2 projects), Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED (2 projects) and DuoScan (2 projects). This data is only supplied by a few of the projects who have misunderstood the wording of the question. Additionally, it is not always clear whether the answer given on the Technical Specification form is referring to the hardware device or software that is directly linked to it.

VIDEO CREATION

Adobe Premier

7

Apple FCP

1

Apple Quicktime

6

Avid Media Corp

2

Discreet Cinestream

3

Final Cut Pro

4

Imagen Encoder

2

Media Cleaner Pro

2

Optibase encoder

1

Pinnacle Cinewave

1

Real Producer

2

SDI

2

XP Movie Maker

1

The most popular type of video creation software is Adobe Premier (7 projects). The next most popular package is Apple QuickTime (6 projects).

 

AUDIO CREATION

Adobe Premier

4

Audacity

1

Avid Media Corp

2

Cool Edit Pro

6

Creative Extigy

1

Deck 2

1

FastEdit

1

Final Cut Pro

3

Helix Producer Plus

1

Image Marker

1

Imagen Encoder

1

Media 100

1

Peak

2

Quicktime

2

RealAudio

1

RealProducer

2

Sonic Foundry

2

Sorenson Squeeze

1

Sound Forge

10

Soundedit

2

Windows Media Encoder

1

The most popular type of Audio Creation software is the Sound Forge product (10 projects), the next most popular is Cool Edit Pro (6 projects).

 

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Access

31

Active Server Pages

14

Apache Jakarta

2

Ark-e-media

2

Bespoke

9

CALM

5

Coldfusion

4

County Record System

1

D-Base

2

Dynix

1

eXist

1

HA2000

1

Hyperion

1

IBase

4

Invisage Digital Asset Management System

1

Imagen Vams

1

KE Emu

3

Kelter

1

Lotus Notes

1

Kelter

1

Macromedia Dreamweaver

1

Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev

1

MiniSQL

1

MODES

2

MUSIMS

2

MySQL

13

Nimoi

1

Oracle

10

Outsourced

2

Roxen Platform

1

Ramesys

1

SQL

7

SQL Server 2000

11

SQL Server 2000 RDBMS

6

Web Objects

5

XML database

1

Zope

1

The results in the table above show how this question has been misunderstood by some projects. Seven projects state that they are using SQL as their Content Management System without specifying the type of database.

However, the most popular type of database being used by projects is Microsoft Access (31 projects). Although Access is an acceptable choice for smaller and simpler projects, its use on larger projects needs to be considered carefully.

 

SERVER SOFTWARE

Active Server Pages

9

Apache Linux

14

Bn2web ibase Net

1

Checkpoint Firewall

1

Coldfusion

1

eMuseum

1

FDI

1

Flashpix Server

1

Ibase iNet software

4

ImagenWeb

1

Jboss

1

JSP1

1

Linux O/S

6

Microsoft IIS

17

MSSQL

2

MySQL

5

Oracle DB

2

PHP

1

Poptel

1

Roxen Platform

1

Sun Cobalt (Unix) mod-ss

1

Tomcat

2

UNIX

7

Windows NT

3

Windows 2000 Server

11

WMDC ICT

1

Zope

1

ZyIMAGE Webserver

1

ZyImage Webserver

1

Again, these results show that this question has been misunderstood by some projects and incorrect answers are being given. Examples of this would be the references to the Oracle database and MySQL.

However, of the packages referenced in the forms Microsoft IIS is the most popular and is used by 17 projects. The next popular is Windows 2000 Server (10 projects).

 

WEB DESIGN

Adobe illustrator

3

Adobe photoshop

16

Allaire Homesite

1

Amaze

1

BBEdit

5

Bn2web

1

Chami HTML-kit

1

Emacs

2

Flash

1

GoLive

2

IBase iNet Software

1

Index +

1

Java

1

JavaScript

1

KeyMedia

1

Macromedia Dreamweaver

48

Macromedia Fireworks

9

Microsoft Frontpage

7

Microsoft Notepad

2

Microsoft Visual Studio

1

PHP

2

Poptel

1

PRO

1

Tapestry

3

Textpad

3

The most popular software package is Macromedia Dreamweaver which is used by 48 projects. The next most popular package is Adobe Photoshop (16 projects).

 


 
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