That text is from an older press release when there were far fewer services providers self-listed on the wiki page.
The numbers there are estimates based on observed activity in various places and personal experiences from discussions with a few people more connected in the community. Since there is no registration or licensing requirements it is impossible to get accurate numbers.
It used to be that the majority of OFBiz service providers didn't advertise themselves and such, and many didn't necessarily want to be listed on this sort of web page (let alone voluntarily list themselves on the page). The ones you see there are basically only the ones who want to market through the open source project.
To give you an idea from my personal experience... I've worked with over 100 clients doing OFBiz-related work, and over half of them have been service providers of some sort or other with the rest being end-user organizations. And that's just me... one of dozens heavily involved and hundreds more casually involved in the project... not to mention the many that branch out from there that "use" OFBiz as a developer or designer or whatever but don't really get involved in the community.
IMO the numbers are still quite conservative, though obviously difficult to prove given the nature of the project.
-David
On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
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