LJ Index

  1. Position of "white box" units among top selling PC "brands": 1
  2. Market share range of "white box" PCs: 50-70
  3. Millions of player pianos sold in the U.S. alone by 1930: 2.5
  4. 1930 U.S. population in millions: 123.2
  5. Linux training revenue in $millions in 1999: 10.3
  6. Linux training revenue in $millions in 2001: 56
  7. Projected Linux training revenue in $millions in 2004: 285
  8. Size in $billions of the system-level training market by 2004: 2
  9. Low end of projected Linux percentage share of the system-level training market by 2004: 5.8
  10. High end of projected Linux percentage share of the same market: 15.3
  11. Projected CAGR of Linux support services revenue from 1999-2004 in %: 86.9
  12. Amazon.com technology expenses in $millions prior to migration to Linux: 71
  13. Amazon.com technology expenses in $millions after migration to Linux: 54
  14. Percentage cut in Amazon technology expenses in migration to Linux: 25
  15. Cost relative to UNIX of 1,000 users tapping into a Linux server: 1/3 to 1/2
  16. Value in $millions to IBM of tools donated to public domain by IBM via the Eclipse.org project: 40
  17. Number of software tools suppliers working on Eclipse software at formation of Eclipse.org on 6 November 2001: 150
  18. Number of individual developers involved with Eclipse at the same point: 1,200
  19. Number of hosted projects on SourceForge.net on 11 November 2001: 29,253
  20. Registered users of SourceForge.net at the same time: 290,500

Sources: 1-3, Jon "maddog: Hall of Linux International; 4, United States Census Bureau; 5-11, International Data Corp. (IDC) <www.idc.com>; 12-14, CNET; 15, Dan Kusnetzy of IDC, in CNET story; 16-18, IBM; 19-20, SourceForge.net.

Notes:

http://www.idc.com:8080/itforecaster/itf20010213.htm

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7720536.html?tag=mn_hd