The number of businesses which are still using Microsoft Office 97
or Microsoft Access 97 today (or at least this year). I am
particularly interested in the number of "fortune 2000" companies which
haven't upgraded.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 27 May 2003 23:19 PDT

I believe that I've located a relevant statistic.

I can provide you with the results of a survey of IT managers on this
subject.  The survey was conducted late last year. The statistic
expresses the percentage of U.S. companies that were still using
Office 97.

Would this be acceptable?

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Clarification of Question by mcoomans-ga on 28 May 2003 00:10 PDT

Yes, the results of a survey taken late last year would be an acceptable.

Hello.

The statistic appears in a recent article on CNET News:

"In an informal survey conducted in October during Gartner's annual
symposium, 31 percent of U.S. IT managers said their companies used
Office 97, 56 percent Office 2000, and 6 percent Office XP."
  source: CNET News.com  March 9, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1012-991694.html

I don't know what your budget is like, but the Gartner Group sells an
analyst's report on Office migration. See gartner.com for more
information.
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=113655


Additional sources:

"As much as 40% of Office's current installed base is still using
Office 97, DeGroot says, and although there are some enticing features
in the upcoming Office for some users, overall he characterizes it as
a modest upgrade."
  source: Information Week, Feb 13, 2003  
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030213S0027

'Microsoft spokespeople won't put any numbers on it, but Smiley says a
recent survey of just 90 to 100 of their corporate clients were
running a total of 400,000 seats of Office 97. "If you extrapolate
that, I've got to believe there still millions of copies of Office 97
being used out there," he says.'
  source: Small Business Computing: September 30, 2002
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/1472261

search strategy:
2003, "using office 97", "used office 97"
"still using", "office 97"

I hope this helps.

Thanks, that was a good result.