Does anyone have a ballpark figure on the number of companies, etc., still actively using Q&A?

I'm not talking about hobbyists for personal use who have no interest in changing or companies that mainly use something else but keep Q&A around for "the old stuff when needed". I'm talking about businesses (at least 1 full-time employee/owner) that actively use it for non-trivial activities.

I work at a lawfirm with about a dozen regular Q&A users. Most of our work involves writing letters with a wordprocessor and Q&A is used to keep notes for status and basic information such as the account number, dollar amount, last activity date, etc.

I'm basically trying to get an idea of how much longer Lantica is likely to be concerned about Q&A compatibility, together with the fact that pretty soon Windows won't support DOS programs.  Obviously, at some point Lantica is going to decide that the remaining Q&A users are never going to switch, so there is no point in maintaining Q&A compatibility.

Also, I'm not interested in outright guesses or "estimates" with a huge range (e.g., "probably somewhere between 4,000 and 40,000".)

Rick_R wrote on Jan 29^th, 2010 at 10:16pm:


Not any time soon. Our commitment to Q&A compatibility is a core value for us.