1. Number of Red Hat shares released for sale in its IPO: 6,000,000
2. Number of Red Hat shares outstanding after the offering: 66,835,104
3. Percentage of shares whose trading price determines 100% of Red Hat's full market value: 9%
4. Offering price for Red Hat's IPO shares: $14/share
5. Red Hat market capitalization (market cap) at its initional offering price (all shares X price): $935,000,000
6. Top Red Hat share price within its first week on the market: $90.69
7. Red Hat market cap at its top first-week share price: $6,061,275,581.76
8. Red Hat 1999 (fiscal year — ends February) sales: $10.79 million
9. Red Hat 1999 net income: $-.90 thousand
10. Estimated size of the Linux-based server market in 2003: 3.8 billion
11. Estimated Linux server licenses reached in 1998: 750,000
12. Estimated non-Linux Unix server licenses reached in 1998: less than 750,000
13. Size of the Internet access market in 1999: $2 billion
14. Estimated size of the Internet access market in 2002: $16 billion
15. Number of Web pages with links to the Linux Documentation project: 225,725
16. Number of Alexa Internet client visits to the Linux Documentation Project over a 6-month period: 144,361.
17. Number of Alexa Internet client visits to Red Hat over the same 6-month period: 102,806
18. Percentage of Linux clients in both numbers above: 0

Sources

• Red Hat information is from forms filed with the SEC and public stock trading data.
• #s 10-12 are from Dataquest, quoted in Computer Reseller News : http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?CRN19990823S0058
• #s 13 and 14 are Dataquest and Merrill Lynch numbers quoted by Motorola Computer Systems
• #s 15-18 are from Alexa Internet