LJ Index — June, 2000

1. Percentage of Linux developers who don't care if the tools they use are open source or proprietary: 87
2. Number of tools categories (out of 11) judged as adequate by 75% or more of developers: 2
3. Percentage of Linux developers predominantly using command line tools and utilities: >50
4. Spending on Linux among the top 100 financial institutions in 1988: $50 million
5. Projected spending on Linux among the top 100 financial institutions in 2003: $200 million
6. Yearly growth rate between the above: 32%
7. Number of lunch hours it took Dr. Linas Vepstas to install Linux on an IBM 390 mainframe: 1
8. Number of Linux machines that can be administered by an IBM 390 mainframe running the VM operating system: 50,000
9. Number of sites surveyed by Netcraft in March 2000: 13,106,190
10. Percentage of sites running on Apache: 60.05
11. Total number of sites running on Apache: 7,870,864
12. Gain by Apache in the most recent month: 1,388,156
13. Percentage of sites served by Microsoft IIS: 20.9
14. Loss in Microsoft server share percentage from prior month: 1
15. Number of press room computers at LinuxWorld/Spring running Windows: 9
16. Number of press room computers at LinuxWorld//Spring running MacOS: 1
17. Number of press room computers at LinuxWorld/Spring running Linux: 0
18. Number of press room computers at Linuxworld observed with Slashdot on screen at the same time: 6, or 60%
19. Number of people killed by sharks each year: 10
20. Number of sharks killed by people each year: 60,000,000

Sources: Evans Marketing Services, IBM, Tower Group research(sourced by IBM), The Linux Show, Netcraft, Doc Searls, David Siegel