- Percentage of Linux developers who plan to develop applications for internal corporate use: >50
- Percentage of Linux developers who plan to develop e-commerce applications: 40
- Percentage of Linux developers writing applications for mobile devices: 20
- Percentage of the above over the same number from six months earlier: 50
- Billions of dollars that will be lost by record labels and book publishers by 2005 from "increased piracy and as artists and authors break away from publishers to go independent": 1.5 to 3.1
- Billions of dollars that will be gained by musicians in the same shift: 1
- Billions of dollars that will be gained by authors in the same shift:1.3
- Billions of dollars that will be gained by third-party service companies: 2.8
- Billions in projected online sales for the 2000 holiday season: 19.5 billion
- Billions in sales for the1999 holiday season: 10.5
- Percentage chance that a potential customer searching an e-tailer's site will make a purchase: 2.7
- Percentage of commerce driven online searches that "produced results that failed basic tests such as finding all relevant information or ordering procedures": 92
- Percentage of advertising that goes unwatched by TV viewers using TiVo and RePlay boxes, which both allow viewers to skip over commercials: 88
- Size in $billions of the venture fund formed by Bertelsmann for investment in "an evolving media marketplace": 1
- Number of new domains registered every second, as of January 2000: 1
SOURCES: 1-4, Evans Research (see http://www.evansdata.com/implement.html for the complete data table); 5-8, Forrester Researche; 9-12, Gartner Group; 13, New York Times; 14, TheStreet.com; 15, Internet Software Consortium <www.isc.org>