LJ Index — August 2000

  1. Percentage of public relations professionals who admit to lying on the job: 25
  2. Percentage of public relations professionals who say they are not always able to confirm the validity of information conveyed to reporters on behalf of clients: 62
  3. Pecentage of Web sites with personal server headers: 5.7
  4. Number of Linux servers that self-disclose their distribution brand: 0
  5. Number of Linux servers found by Netcraft to disclose their distribution through Apache's personal server header: 850,000
  6. Percentage of those serviers that identfy their distibution as Red Hat: 72
  7. Percentage of those serviers that identfy their distibution as SuSE: 10
  8. Percentage of those serviers that identfy their distibution as Debian 9
  9. Number of distributions with more than 3%: 0
  10. Market cap of the entire Linux category in July, 1999: $0
  11. Market cap of Red Hat at its peak in November, 1999: $22.5 billion
  12. Red Hat revenues in the quarter ending November, 1999: $5.7 million
  13. Market cap of Red Hat on June 1, 2000: $2.8 billion
  14. Red Hat revenues in the quarter ending February, 2000: $13.1 million
  15. Market cap of thirteen "Tier 1" Linux companies on June 1, 2000: $8 billion
  16. Percentage of girls at popular teen website who say they have had sex by the age of fifteen: 35
  17. Percentage of girls at popular teen website who say virginity is in: 34
  18. Percentage of visits to popular teen website that use Linux: .22

Sources: 1-2, PRWeek, according to Reuters; 3-9, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com>; 10-15, Linux Weekly News and public financial information sources;16-18, Smartgirl.com.