- Multiple over by which Real Networks new (to be) open-source-based Helix Universal Server exceeds the speed of Microsoft's equivalent product, running on Windows NT: 2
- Multiple over by which Real Networks same server exceeds the speed of Microsoft's equivalent product, running on Linux: 4
- Number of Linux Users Groups (LUGs): 500
- Number of countries with LUGs: 80
- $Millions in Linux sales in 2001: 80
- Projected $millions in Linux sales by 2006: 280
- $Billions in Microsoft Windows sales in 2001: 10
- Linux annual growth rate percentage according to Tower Group: 30
- Linux percentage annual growth ratepercentage according to IDC: 37
- Linux percentage of corporate IT budgets: 9
- Percentage of retail sector CIOs "looking at open source software": 32
- Number of IBM telecom customers who use Linux: 50
- Number of IBM ISVs with Linux enabled apps: 3800
- Number of Linux support personnel at IBM: 5000
- Thousands of Zauruses reportedly brought to LinuxWorld Expo in August expecting all would sell: 3
- Number of New Zealand's Compaq servers replaced by one IBM Z Series mainframe: 150
- Minimum number of IBM telecom customers using Linux: 50
- Number of Linux instances on a Z Series mainframe at Solomon Smith Barney in New York: 62
- Number of Linux instances on Korean Airlines IBM Z series mainframe: 10
- Number of Korean Airlines personnel using the flight schedule system now consolidated on the mainframe: 4000
1-2, RealNetwoirks; 3-4, Linux Counter; 5-7, International Data Corp., quoted in CNET; 9-10, International Data Corp., cited by IBM; 11, Tower Group, cited by Open Forum Europe; 12-14, 16, IBM; 15, Source at LinuxWorld Expo; 16-20, IBM.
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