LJ Index

  1. Euros the European Union is spending to study migrating EU government computers to Linux and open source: 249,000
  2. Potential number of Linux desktops in a pilot project for the UK Police IT Organization: 60,000
  3. Target price in £ for the UK Police IT Organization's desktops: 299
  4. Number of developers registered in the Helix Community open source project: 2000
  5. Number of Regal Cinemas with Linux-based point-of-sale (POS) stations: 536
  6. Number of Linux-based IBM SurePOS 500 machines ordered by Regal Cinemas: 3500
  7. Estimated annual sales in $millions of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange: 500
  8. Estimated $millions invested by Mitch Kapor in the Open Source Applications Foundation: 5
  9. Planned price in $ for applications produced by the OSAF: 0
  10. Percentage growth in Linux servers for the year ending June 30, 2002: 18
  11. Percentage growth in Windows servers over the same period: 3
  12. Approximate number IBM Linux integration and support contracts as of last September: 800
  13. Number of IBM Linux integration and support contracts 15 months earlier: 95
  14. Percentage range of servers with Linux Dell and HP expect to sell in 2002: 15-18
  15. Expected percentage of servers that will be running Linux by 2006: 26
  16. Percentage use of GNU/Linux in Japanese corporations in 2001: 35.5
  17. Percentage use of GNU/Linux in Japanese corporations in 2002: 64.3
  18. Percentage of embedded developers who expect to use Linux in their next project: 30.2
  19. Percentage of embedded developers who expect to use Windows CE in their next project: 16.2
  20. Percentage of embedded developers who expect to use Windows XP in their next project: 14.4

1-3, The Register; 4, Helix; 5-6, Computerworld; 7-15, Fortune, sourcing International Data Corp.; 16-17, David Wheeler; 18-20, Evans Data Corp.

Notes to ignore...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27853.html

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,74568,00.html

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=210102

http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=209583

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124737,00.html

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/05/1033538810345.html

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D1305

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24856-2002Oct14.html

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7342059167.html