LJ Index — April, 2000

  1. Percentage of embedded application developers who plan to use Linux as their host platform in the current year: 26
  2. Percentage of IT professionals who consider Linux as important or essential to their enterprise strategies: 49
  3. Percentage of corporate PCs that will run Linux and other free operating systems within two years: 9
  4. Current Linux corporate PC market share percentage: 4.5
  5. Percentage of enterprises that plan to deploy Linux or FreeBSD as corporate e-commerce platforms: 17
  6. Percentage of IBM servers of all sizes that now support Linux: 100
  7. Number of IBM server lines that supported Linux one year ago: 1
  8. 1999 IBM revenues from its server business: $ billion
  9. Worldwide open-source UNIX (including Linux) growth rate for major enterprise server applications:150% to 500%
  10. Rumor number of an IDC study on percentage of Intel servers running Linux: 24.8
  11. Number of Web documents that contain the word "value": 8,852,056
  12. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "value add": 17,856
  13. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "create value": 92,955
  14. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "value creation": 11,784
  15. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "multiply value": 269
  16. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "subtract value": 258
  17. Number of Web documents that contain the phrase "divide value": 180

Sources:

1) Electronic Market Forecasters; 2) MERIT Advisory Council; 3 -9) Survey.com; 10) Computerworld; 11-17) FAST (http://www.alltheweb.com)