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I recently came across a report produced by Civil Society IT http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/it/ entiled 'third annual Charity CRM Software Survey' (dated June 2010) which failed to mention CiviCRM at all, maybe because the market share was so low that it fell into their "other" category which accounts for 12% of the market (below "bespoke" at 13% and Microsoft Access also at 13%).  Arguably as the report was produced 18 months ago and if CiviCRM has been growing really fast then perhaps it is understable that they missed it.

I have seen figures like "5,000+ active installations" cited in http://civicrm.org/sites/civicrm.org/files/CiviCRM%20intro%20PDF.pdf but what might that represent as a percentage of all potential installations?  I have to believe that the majority of those are non-profits, charities and NGO's.

Does anyone have any handle at all on CiviCRM's market share - in any market (although ideally I am looking at UK)?

Thanks
Mark

Thanks Korund, but the only quantitative information I can find there is the quoted "5,000-plus active installations currently in more than 25 countries" on page 48 of 'A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems' published by Idealware and NTEN in 2011.

The only other thing I have found since is that there are close to 20,000 CiviCRM Community Forum members, which is consistent with there being more than 5,000 installations, if there are 3-4 registered forum members per installation.  Of course if there were only 1-2 forum members per installation then there could easily be well over 10,000 installations worldwide. 

That may be as close as we can get for the actual numbers.

Mark

Would be a good statistical project to try and figure out some numbers with regard to active / live / current installs etc

How can that be done? You don't track pingbacks from live sites looking for latest version info?