LJ Index

1. Forecast global percentage IT spending increase for 2003: 4
2. Forecast Minimum percentage Linux enterprise server growth in 2002: 50
3. Server growth percentage forecast: On top of a 50%-plus growth rate in enterprise servers in 2002, we forecast a 40% growth for Linux servers in 2003.
4. Forecast 2003 percentage growth rate for Linux in Asia: 24
5. Forecast 2003 percentage growth rate for Windows in Asia: 6
6. IBM's claimed Linux revenues, in $billions: 1
7. HP's claimed Linux revenue, in $billions: 2
8. Damages in $billions sought by SCO in a lawsuit against IBM for disclosing SCO-licensed AIX source code to the Linux community: 1
9. Percentage cost savings range experienced by Merrill Lynch since deploying Linux on IBM mainframes: 40-50.
10. Projected minimum yearly savings in $millions for Merrill Lynch by fully deploying its Linux-on-mainframe strategy: 100
11. Number of Linux boxes currently in production at Morgan Stanley: 400
12. Number of Linux boxes currently "in the pipeline" at Morgan Stanley: 300
13. Price/performance increase multiple experienced by Morgan Stanley on six four-way Linux boxes over what they replaced: 13
14. Percentage improvement in cost experienced by Lehman Brothers with Linux: 50
15. Percentage improvement in performance experienced by Lehman Brothers with Linux: 20
16. Percentage bandwidth capacity of ordinary phone wire "dim copper" to households is currently utilized: 1
17. Percentage of IBM's servers currently sold that are Linux-driven: 15-20
18. Percentage annual growth in Linux users over the next few years predicted by Sun CEO Scott McNeally: 30
19. Percentage of 5316 persons polled on "greatest threat to Linux growth" who said "lack of standards": 29
20. Percentage of above who said "Microsoft": 26
21. Percentage of above who said "command line zealots": 6
22. Percentage of above who said "Senator 'Fritz' Hollings": 6
23. Percentage of above who said "Pointy-haired bosses": 5

Sources: 1-3, Aberdeen; 4-5, International Data Corp, in Economic Times; 6-7, eWeek; 8, SCO; 9-15, Risk Waters Group; 16, Bob Frankston; 17, Jim Stallings, IBM; 18, Associated Press; 19-23, Linux.com

Lindows.com;

http://www.satn.org/archive/2003_02_23_archive.html#90389882http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=39393729

http://www.aberdeen.com/ab_company/about/2003IToutlook.htm

http://www.brianstorms.com/04mar2003.html

February 4, 2003