LJ Index

  1. Millions of multimedia home networks approached in 2005: 1
  2. Millions of multimedia home networks approached in 2006: 3
  3. Percentage CAGR (compound annual growth rate) for the mutimedia home network business from 2001-2006: 210.7
  4. Height in cm of Wakamuru, a Linux-based Japanese robot designed to care for the sick and elderly: 100
  5. Size in words of Wakamuru's vocabulary: 10,000
  6. Percentage of IT budgets spent on maintaining existing systems: 79
  7. Percentage range of Linux cost savings relative to UNIX, running Oracle: 45-80
  8. Billions of yen Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will dole out for open source development in the next year (2003): 1
  9. Millions of yen budgeted in the next fiscal year to study possibly switching Japan's government computers to open source: 50
  10. Cost in $ of an SGI mainframe replaced by a cluster of 12 PCs running Red Hat Linux at the Johnson Space Center in Houston: 1,600,000
  11. $ sum in annual maintenance costs exceeded by the SGI mainframe: 50,000
  12. Cost in $ of the 12 PCs and their OSes: 25,000
  13. Number of the top ten hosting locations that run Linux: 9
  14. Percentage drop in IT spending during 2002, according to IDC: 4.1
  • Percentage of companies planning to increase IT spending in 2003, according to IDC: 85
  • Percentage decline in average business spending on computer hardware and software in 2003, according to Goldman Sachs: 1
  • Percentage increase in IT spending forecast for 2003, according to Forrester Research: 1.9
  • Percentage of security experts at $1 billion + companies who don't trust Microsoft: 77
  • Percentage of those same companies that still deploy Microsoft software in mission-critical applications: 90
  • Probability through 2006 that Microsoft will not support Linux: 80

    Sources: 1-3, In-Stat; 4-5 Linux Devices; 6-7, Oracle; 8-9, Associated Press; 10-12, Information Week; 13, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com> 14-15, International Data Corp.; 16, Goldman Sachs; 17, Forrester Research; 18-19, Forrester Research; 20, Gartner Group.

    Ignore these:

    http://www4.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=388563

    http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=38543

    http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/01/28.html#a617

    http://www.instat.com/press.asp?ID=523&sku=IN020018MI

    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7042164953.html

    http://www.aberdeen.com/ab_company/researchareas/plat-linux-trends.htm

    http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?mt=a&n=0&BV0&coe=0&oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-23588%3a-24164%3a690118

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20030123/tc_cmp/iwk20030123s0023

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28981.html

    1. 316 persons polled on "greatest threat to Linux growth" who said "lack of standards": 29
    2. Percentage of above who said "Microsoft": 26
    3. Percentage of above who said "command line zealots": 6
    4. Percentage of above who said "Senator 'Fritz' Hollings": 6
    5. 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

    • John Taschek in eWeek asks Billions, Billions of Linux Bucks Served?

    eWeek: Linux Year in Review

      By 2007, we said one year ago, "No one will be fired for recommending Linux." Shortening our own timeline by four years, we suggest that an IT buyer might already be fired today for failing to consider Linux. That's a small step but one of Neil Armstrong caliber.

    Could Linux run your power plant? http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982938.html

    Linux plays in storage area http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=37821

    SGI hollywood on Linux.

    Microsoft Gated Source in UK yada yada

    German funded linux software arriving

    Micorosoft warns SEC of open source threat

    Red Hat Intel Reuters Market data

    Geac in Canada does Linux for imaging.

    Desktop Linux Consortium

    eWeek: Microsoft warns SEC of open source threat

    CNET: Desktop Linux Consortium

    German government moves to Linux