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Front page web templates
Microsoft's domination of the Web authoring tool market is so overwhelming that major research firms find little profit in measuring it.
"Everyone tries to categorize themselves as being in some different category from Microsoft FrontPage," says Harley Manning, research director at Boston-based Forrester Research. "But the dirty little secret is that Microsoft Front Page is about 10 times more prevalent in the marketplace than the next closest competitor which would be Macromedia Dreamweaver." According to Manning, the last time research was conducted into HTML tools, Microsoft Front Page had about 2.5 million active users, while sales of competitors' tools ranged in the hundreds of thousands. On the graphics side, the biggest seller is Adobe's PhotoShop and Illustrator, with Flash and Shockwave gaining popularity as design tools.
There is another trend, however. As Web site creation trickles down to the masses, many amateur designers are using the simplified thin-client front ends that come with content management tools.
"Web professionals will design templates and non-professionals will populate the templates with anything from marketing spec sheets to press releases to job listings," Manning says. "There's really not a need for an average person to learn how to use a Dreamweaver, a Go Live or even a Front Page."
Product Sales Revenue Marketshare in Units in millions in Units of dollars
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Microsoft's FrontPage
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Jan-May 99 101,200 US$11.9 38.7%
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Jan-May 2000 154,070 US$17 34.8%
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Macromedia's Dreamweaver
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Jan-May 99 18,361 US$4.6 7%
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Jan-May 2000 49,151 US$18.2 11.7%
Source: PC Data Online, July 2000
Copyright Plesman Publications Ltd. Aug 2000
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
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