Need to know to which vendors you should send an RFP? Perhaps knowing the number of users for a system as large or small as yours can help. Although some vendors do appear to specialize, the majority have sold systems ranging in size from very large to very small. The following chart shows the distribution for vendors of multiuser, multitasking systems as of the end of 1999:
| Number of User Licenses | |||||
| # of user licenses | 200+ | 100-199 | 30-99 | 16-29 | 1-15 |
| VENDOR | |||||
| CARL | 26 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| DRA | 400 | 70 | 205 | 125 | 570 |
| Endeavor | 51 | 37 | 138 | 122 | 250 |
| EOSi | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 26 |
| epixtech | +191 | 118 | 440 | 351 | 1,934 |
| Ex Libris | 19 | 32 | 37 | 9 | 95 |
| Gaylord | 8 | 10 | 70 | 136 | 85 |
| Geac | 24 | 90 | 162 | 57 | 154 |
| Innovative | 76 | 110 | 502 | (est.) 20 | (est.) 23 |
| Sirsi* | 45 | 87 | 102 | 636 | (combined response) |
| TLC | 1 | 1 | 26 | 58 | 119 |
| VTLS | 89 | 55 | 134 | 63 | 84 |
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+ All figures except the first column are for Dynix only. The first column includes Horizon.
* 1998 data, plus estimates for 1999 | |||||
