- Power consumption per day in dollars of an IBM z900 (Formerly S/390) mainframe: 32
- Starting price in dollars of an IBM z900: 750,000
- Number of Linux instances that have been run on one z900: 41,000
- Percentage of companies have or intend to deploy at least one Linux system: 68
- Number of U.S. information appliance unit sales in 2000: 7,440,000
- Projected U.S. information appliance unit sales in 2005: 51,800,000
- Compound annual growth rate of U.S. information appliance sales: 47.4%.
- Worldwide information appliance unit sales in 2000: 29,000,000
- Projected worldwide information appliance unit sales in 2005: 305,000,000
- Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of worldwide information appliance sales: 59.8%
- Number of BSD-based Apple OS X betas downloaded or shipped by January 2001: 100,000
- Number of people submitting input to the OS X beta process: 70,000
- Volume of resumes posted per day on Monster.com: 38,000
- Monster.com's total job database: 12,000,000
- Pounds of ground beef that might be contaminated by one diseased cattle: 32,000
- Chances that an American will have a fast food meal today: 1 in 4
- Number of class action lawsuits filed against VA Linux in January 2001: 5
- Number of those lawsuits that erroneously referred the company as "Linux": 4
- Number of similar lawsuits filed by one of those firms, Milberg Weiss, in one decade: 200
- Estimated cost in $millions of a complete Linux solution on one IBM mainframe: 7
- Estimated cost in $millions of the same solution on equivalent Sun hardware: 55
Sources:1-2, CRN; 3, LinuxPlanet; 4, CIO; 5-10, eTforecasts; 11-12, Apple; 13-14, ZDNet; 15-16, Eric Schlosser, author, Fast Food Nation; 17-18, Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.net); 19, law-phoenix.com; 20-21, Infoworld.
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