- Percentage increase in XML usage among Linux developers over the last 6 months before September 2000: 75
- Percentage of surveyed Linux developers using XML: 28
- Percentage of surveyed Linux developers who use XML up to half the time: 27
- Percentage of surveyed Linux developers who use Java: 54
- Percentage deline in club meetings over the last 25 years: 58
- Percentage deline in family dinners over the last 25 years: 33
- Percentage deline in "having freinds over" over the last 25 years: 45
- Percentage reduction in your chance of dying if you join one club next year: 50
- Year by which open source standards are expected to completely change the software industry: 2004
- Number of unrelated Zellerate (formerly Open Sales) founders whose surname is Ferber: 2
- Percent return on U.S. venture funds in the 4th quarter of 1999: 59.4
- Percent return on U.S. venture funds in the 1st quarter of 2000: 23.1
- Percent return on U.S. venture funds in the 2nd quarter of 2000: 3.9
- Dollars raised by venture capitalists through mid-Ocober of 2000: 64,000,000,000
- Projected percent return on venture funds over 20 years, as of 6/30/2000: 19.9
- Share price once predicted for Priceline by Merrill Lynch Internet analyst Henry Blodget: $150
- Priceline share price on April 22, 2000: $76.38
- Priceline share price on April 30, 200: $165
- Priceline share price projected in May of 2000 by Jamie Kiggen, then of DLJ: $190
- Priceline share price on October 17, 2000: $5
SOURCES: 1-4, Evans Data Corporation (September 26, 2000); 5-8 BowlingAlone.com; 9, Wired, quoting Forrester Research; 10, Zellerate; 11-13, Venture Economics; 14, San Jose Mercury news, quoting Venture Economics; 15-20, CBS.MarketWatch.com