LJ Index


  1. Number of email packages other than Microsoft Outlook Express that could be infected by the Anna Kournikova virus: 0
  2. Number of emails carrying the Anna Kournikova virus received by one Linux Journal editor on February 11, 2001: 15
  3. Approximate number of people laid off when SuSE closed its U.S. office in February: 30
  4. Approximate number of SuSE employees at the time, worldwide: 600
  5. Number of French schools now involved in the national Linux program: 350
  6. number of linux distributions 188
  7. number of embedded: 25
  8. total number last august:17
  9. Percentage increase in thin client shipments during 1999: 90
  10. Percentage of fortune 100 companies that use thin clients: 80
  11. Size of Amazon.com's announced layoffs in January 2001: 1300
  12. Size in $millions of Amazon's stock trust fund for laid off employees in Janurary: 2.5
  13. Percentage of Internet penetration of the U.S. population in February 2001: 60
  14. Millions of people logging on to the Internet in the U.S. in February 2001: 169
  15. Work access as a percentage of all Net access in the U.S. in February 2001: 14
  16. Billions of wireless messages sent per month by the end of 2004: 244
  17. Number of MP3s in the average peer-to-peer user's hard drive: 500

Sources: 1, News.com; 2, Doc Searls; 3-4, Michael Hasenstein; 5, Linux World; 6-8, TechWeb; 9, International Data Corp.; 10 Giga Information Group; 11-12, Moneybox; 13-15, News.com; 16, News.com; 17, Eric Garland of BigChampagne.com, from The Standard;