Stardraw.com has delivered all its products exclusively through its website since January 2002. In addition to the initial installation of long-established design/documentation tools like Stardraw A/V and Stardraw Lighting 2D, users employ the website to download program updates and to access libraries of more than 50,000 high-quality symbols. However, since most Stardraw users only use a small proportion of the libraries, choosing just the brands they need from 400+ manufacturer libraries, and since the average symbol size is less than 20KB, symbols alone cannot explain the massive growth in website usage. Nor indeed can it be put down exclusively to increased numbers of users - Stardraw A/V and its siblings are very efficient applications with an installed total filesize, excluding symbols, of only 17MB or thereabouts.
The company says the huge growth can be linked most closely to Stardraw.com's new products and the increasing number of OEM implementations. Third party (OEM) applications based on Stardraw technologies, including RCI Custom's PanelBuilder, Middle Atlantic Products' RackTools 3.0, and Simply Reliable Software's SRS Draw, all choose to utilize Stardraw.com's webservers to deliver program files and data Meanwhile Stardraw Control, the new application designed to create custom user interfaces that can control any hardware device using any protocol, has been received with great excitement throughout the industry. With around 4,000 installations, Stardraw Control's growing userbase enjoys and takes full advantage of the immediacy of free downloads and seamless web updates to the multi award-winning application.
Summing up, Robinson commented: "The web stats confirm that our innovative business models, advanced delivery systems and cutting-edge products are currently in use by nearly 20,000 people worldwide - and that figure doesn't include the more than 1,000 monthly demo downloads of our design/documentation applications. We now fully expect to break 200GB/month well before the end of the year, meaning 1.7 Terabytes will be downloaded from www.stardraw.com during 2006, and that's a great public endorsement."
(Lee Baldock)
