LJ Index

  1. Sum offered (and paid out in January 2003) by Lindows founder Michael Robertson for the successful port of Linux to Microsoft's XBox by the end of 2002: 100,000
  2. Sum offered by Robertson for a port to XBox with no hardware modification by the end of 2003: 100,000
  3. Year by which Linux is expected to become the majority server operating system: 2009
  4. Position Linux is expected to soon occupy among desktop operating systems: 2
  5. Price in rupees of Hewlett Packard's AMD 1.5 GHz Athlon-based Presario home computer, sold with Red Hat Linux: 30,990 ($645US, as of 3 January 2003)
  6. Price in rupees of Hewlett Packard's Intel 1.6 GHz Intel-based Presario home computer, sold with Windows XP: 40,000 ($833US, as of 3 January 2003)
  7. Additional discounts on the Linux Presario, in rupees, from "assemblers" : 2000
  8. Millions of Google results in a search for "Linux" on 29 November 2002: 41
  9. Millions of Google results in a search for "Linux on 2 January 2003: 59
  10. Growth in "Linux" results per day over the same period: 529,412
  11. Position of Americans (age 18-24) among 9 countries in a National Geographic test of geography knowledge: 7
  12. Position of Swedes in the same test: 1
  13. Percentage of tested Americans who could not locate India on a map: 56
  14. Percentage increase in performance of tested Americans who reported using the Internet: 65
  15. Position of Linux among the Top Ten technology searches on Google in 2002: 4
  16. Position of Microsoft among the Top Ten technology searches on Google in 2002: 9
  17. Number of applications shown on stage by Sun Microsystems at Comdex Fall 2002: 2
  18. Percentage of applications shown on stage by Sun Micrososytems at Comdex Fall 2002 that ran on Linux: 100
  19. Percentage of servers on which Linux is expected to run by 2006-2007: 45

1-2, Xbox Linux Project <http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net>; 3, Butler Group Server Operating Systems Report <http://www.butlergroup.com>; 4, IDC (via ZDNet); 5-7 Financial Express; 8-10, Google; 1-14, National Geographic; 15-16, Search Engine Watch; 17-18, Doc Searls, reporting from Comdex; 19, Meta Group, quoted in Business Week.

Notes:

4-5, http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=24958>

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