LJ Index

  1. Market cap in $billions at which Yahoo is worth more than all magazines put together: 30
  2. Number of $billions IBM is investing in Linux software, hardware, services, partnerships and the open source community in 2001: 1
  3. Number of servers X-series computers in what IBM claims will be the world's largest Linux supercomputer: 1,024
  4. Number of racks used to house all those Linux boxen: 32
  5. Sum in $trillions that will be spent on Internet infrastructure and e-commerce by 2003, exceeding the gross domestic products of Germany, France and the U.K.: 2.8
  6. Year by which Vint Cerf expects the number of Net-connected devices will outnumber the world's telephones: 2006
  7. Millions of Net-connected devices, independent of cell phones, Vint Cerf predicts will exist by 2006: 900
  8. Number of airline flights in the next 24 hours:42,300
  9. Number of people who will take those flights: 3, 000,000
  10. Number of flights that will crash: 0
  11. Number of travelers in 1999 who used the Net to plan trips and make reservations: 52
  12. Percent of application developers worldwide who say they plan to write wireless applications in the next year: 40
  13. Position of Linux as a Web server platform: #1
  14. Percentage of Web servers that ran on Linux as of May, 2000: 36
  15. Position of Linux among fastest-growing server operating systems: #1
  16. Internet-related applications as a percentage of spending on Linux servers: 40
  17. Number of handheld and notebook information appliances by 2002: 55,000,000
  18. Year by which shipments of handhelds and notebook appliances will exceed shipments of PC: 2005

Sources: 1, Forbes; 2-4, IBM; 5, Nortel & International Data Corp. (IDC); 6-7, Domain Street; 8-10, Boeing; 11-12, Evans Data Corp.; 13-14, Netcraft; 15-18, IDC