Which CAT tools are more popular among ProZians? Thread poster: Samuel Murray
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Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 07:11
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Hello everyone
This is a minipoll to which I already know the answer, but I'm curious about what people's perceptions are.
The question is: arrange the following 8 CAT tools in order of how many ProZians claim on their profile pages that they either have the tool or can do translations in the tool. Take into account what you'd think the total number for all versions of the tool would be.
Across
Deja Vu
Fluency
Idiom
MemoQ
Ome... See more Hello everyone
This is a minipoll to which I already know the answer, but I'm curious about what people's perceptions are.
The question is: arrange the following 8 CAT tools in order of how many ProZians claim on their profile pages that they either have the tool or can do translations in the tool. Take into account what you'd think the total number for all versions of the tool would be.
Across
Deja Vu
Fluency
Idiom
MemoQ
OmegaT
Trados (any version)
Wordfast (any version)
The highest number is about 70 000 and the lowest number is about 600, but you don't have to guess the numbers... just the order of most popular to least popular. And no cheating!
Samuel ▲ Collapse
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Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
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Member (2009)
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Hi Samuel,
I suppose CafeTran didn't have enough users to warrant inclusion. Although I hope I am wrong.
Michael
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 07:11
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TOPIC STARTER
Michael Beijer wrote:
I suppose CafeTran didn't have enough users to warrant inclusion.
My method for counting users does not enable me to get any numbers for CafeTran, unfortunately.
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| T - W - M - D - O - F - I - A | Oct 23, 2013 |
Trados (any version)
Wordfast (any version)
MemoQ
Deja Vu
OmegaT
Fluency
Idiom
Across
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| T - W - M - O - D - F - I - A | Oct 23, 2013 |
Trados (any version)
Wordfast (any version)
MemoQ
OmegaT
Deja Vu
Fluency
Idiom
Across
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Trados (any version)
MemoQ
Wordfast (any version)
Deja Vu
Across
OmegaT
Fluency
Idiom
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Wordfast (any version)
Trados (any version)
MemoQ
Deja Vu
OmegaT
Across
Fluency
Idiom
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 07:11
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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TOPIC STARTER | Some thoughts while we wait... | Oct 23, 2013 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
This is a minipoll to which I already know the answer, but I'm curious about what people's perceptions are.
It's fascinating how everyone thinks MemoQ should be in the top three, whereas in fact MemoQ is somewhere in the bottom three. Oh, and the difference between the number claiming Across and the number claiming MemoQ is... 19 users (so they're amazingly close to each other).
I'm looking forward to a few more guesses.
[Edited at 2013-10-23 16:12 GMT]
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Selcuk Akyuz
Türkiye
Local time: 08:11
English to Turkish
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Trados (any version)
Wordfast (any version)
Deja Vu
OmegaT
Across
MemoQ
Idiom
Fluency
[Edited at 2013-10-23 16:30 GMT]
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Erik Freitag
Germany
Local time: 07:11
Member (2006)
Dutch to German
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| A wild guess | Oct 23, 2013 |
This would have been my (wild) guess:
Wordfast (any version)
Trados (any version)
Deja Vu
MemoQ
OmegaT
Across
Idiom
Fluency
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| memoQ's perceived share | Oct 23, 2013 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
It's fascinating how everyone thinks MemoQ should be in the top three, whereas in fact MemoQ is somewhere in the bottom three.
It's probably because memoQ has been a huge success on TGB deals for the past couple of years, and people may also be influenced by the results so far on Kevin Lossner's own mini-survey.
OTOH, memoQ was unheard of back in 2007, when existing players such as Trados, Déjà Vu and Wordfast already had a large user base.
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Trados (any version)
Wordfast (any version
MemoQ
Deja Vu
OmegaT
Fluency
Idiom
Across
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 07:11
Member (2006)
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TOPIC STARTER | Selcuk is spot on | Oct 23, 2013 |
Selcuk Akyuz wrote:
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Total number of ProZians (according to the same search methodology): 284 242
Total number of ProZians who claim these CAT tools on their profile pages:
SDL Trados: 71 762
Wordfast: 36 297
Deja Vu: 12 259
OmegaT: 9 244
Across: 8 223
MemoQ: 8 204
Idiom: 6 053
Fluency: 610
Number of those who updated their profile in the past year:
SDL Trados: 35 503
Wordfast: 18 098
MemoQ: 6 282
Deja Vu: 5 538
OmegaT: 5 274
Across: 4 832
Idiom: 3 372
Fluency: 527
Percentage who did not update their profiles in the past year:
Deja Vu: 55%
SDL Trados: 51%
Wordfast: 51%
Idiom: 45%
OmegaT: 43%
Across: 42%
MemoQ: 23%
These results are from a ProZ.com directory search, which means that it can only search for CAT tools in the drop-down list, which is why other CAT tools can't be searched for using this same method.
Samuel
[Edited at 2013-10-23 18:39 GMT]
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Selcuk Akyuz
Türkiye
Local time: 08:11
English to Turkish
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And I win a "free" OmegaT
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| That's interesting | Oct 24, 2013 |
I think that I thought MemoQ would be in the top three because perhaps MemoQ fans are the most vociferous.
I often wax lyrical on the benefits of MemoQ (to me) compared with the other CAT tools I have used (Trados and Wordfast) and I know that many other translators do, so it does come as a surprise not to see it in the top 3.
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