First of all, let me take a moment to remember Cathy Garrison for her hard work and dedication in forming the Midwest Macromedia Studio User Group. Cathy and I did not always agree on the direction of the group, but I deeply admired her contribution and concern for it’s success. Knowing that she would want the group to continue, let’s get back to business.

I have been scouring the web looking for Flash 8 penetration statictics. It seems like the adoption rate for the latest player would be quite high, given the agressive nature of the automatic update and express install capability. Discouraged that nobody seems to be publishing any numbers so far, I set out to develop my own at http://www.rpmworld.com/flashVerStats.php