From: Elaine Hunt <ehunt@ces.clemson.edu>
>in time? The number of years it would take to produce the necessary broad
>changes will see most of us growing daisies.
>
>10 years = 3700 systems sold = 5500 companies using RP&M
>20 years =19000 systems sold= 25000 companies using RP&M
Come on, Elaine. By "20 years" you are referring to 10 years from now
and you expect to see only five times as many fabbers in use??? That's only
17% annual growth. I promise you that in 2008 there will be hundreds of
thousands if not millions of fabbers in use. A large proportion of those
will be at future "3-D Kinko's," so the number of users will be enormous.
And those users will not all be "companies."
Remember that Peddie Associates has predicted that by 2003 there will be
79 million users of 3-D graphics software (46% of the number of PCs at that
time). What are those people going to do for output? Flat pictures? Give me
a break!
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
Marshall@Ennex.com
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