How many Visual Studio.NET licenses have been sold to date?

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Clarification of Question by apples13-ga on 13 May 2003 18:17 PDT

i.e. approximately.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 13 May 2003 21:05 PDT

Hello again apples13-ga,

Thank you for the great rating you gave me in your other question.

I see that you haven’t received an answer to this question yet.   I
did some more research and this is what I was able to dig up.


2/13/2002

“Visual Studio .NET's mark is a bit more niche: "developers,
developers, developers," Ballmer said in a video while sweating
profusely that circulated the Internet. He says some 3.5 million
downloads of the beta version for Visual Studio .NET have already been
accounted for out of a Microsoft-estimated 6 million developers
worldwide.

More numbers flaunted on Wednesday at Microsoft's official unveiling
of the product at Navy Pier: 350,000 customers have received the code,
250,000 developers have been trained, 6,000 "go live" licenses have
been issued and 6,000 people showed up for the launch in Chicago, 764
user groups have been formed, 250 .NET books are now available, 190
add-on tools for the product are launching now and 26 languages are
supported.”
 
By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
Reporter's Beat: Telecom
http://www.eprairie.com/printer/article.asp?newsletterID=3368


April 2, 2003

"Mastering Visual Studio .NET" speaks to millions of Windows
developers who, analysts expect, will actively start using the .NET
platform in the next twelve-to-eighteen months. That includes more
than five million Visual Basic 6 developers worldwide, two million
Visual C++ developers, and roughly one million Visual Interdev Web
developers. All of them will be moving from earlier development
platforms to an environment that offers them many more possibilities.
"With Microsoft's previous generation of development tools, each
language had its own IDE," Griffiths says. "Now there is just one
unified environment."

Source: Oreilly Press Room
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/758


If this information is useful for you task, please let me know in
order to post it as the official answer.


Thanks,
Bobbie7-ga

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Clarification of Question by apples13-ga on 13 May 2003 22:44 PDT

Thanks for the info bobbie7-ga, but I'm interested in Visual
Studio.NET licenses specifically. The Beta download count is useful
but doesn't really indicate the approximate number of licenses sold to
date. It may well be that Microsoft aren't releasing that information
to anyone for commercial/competition reasons.

Note: I would also consider direct confirmation that Microsoft has not
released any information on Visual Studio.NET license sales at the
current time as an answer.

An estimate of the current license count from an industry authority
would also be a reasonable answer to the question.

By "current", I mean within the last 0-6 months.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 13 May 2003 23:17 PDT

Apples13-ga,

Thanks for the clarification. I'm going to do some more research and
I'll get back to you if I find anything.

In any case this question will remain open so that another researcher
can take a go at it.

Best regards,
Bobbie7-ga