New Shockwave stats available

[John Dowdell]

The "Shockwave Distribution" page on the Macromedia website was updated

this week. You can get there by clicking the link in the "Shockwave"

section of the Macromedia website.


In it first year as the Flash plugin there were 24 million downloads from

the Macromedia site. This is in addition to the distribution on the Disney,

Microsoft, and RealNetworks sites, as well as the distribution on operating

system CDs from Microsoft and Apple, on browsers CD from Netscape and

Microsoft, etc.


More important, I think, is that this rate of increase is itself

increasing... there were over four million Flash engines downloaded during

January 1998. (That's nearly a hundred new viewers every minute of the

month.)


Flash started out the year with a smaller installed base than Director, but

the two are reaching parity... last month there were two Flash engines

download for every Director engine.


Anyway, please give the stats page a look. There's more work to do here

obviously, but if there's something that you particularly need when working

with your clients, then please bring it up on the list, thanks.


jd




John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US


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