LJ Index

  1. Percentage of AOL email traffic that is spam: 80
  2. Billions of dollars spent by governments on security in 2003: 550
  3. Percentage of parking paid for by mobile phone in Croatia: 50
  4. Millions of times mobile maps are used in Japan in a day: 2
  5. Number of years fast food outlets in Finland have been taking payments by mobile phone: 2
  6. Linux percentage range of new server operating system shipments in late 2002: 15-20
  7. Percentage share of new OS shipments that will be Linux on Intel, or Lintel, by 2006 or 2007: 45
  8. Year by which Microsoft will sell major back office products running on Linux: 2004
  9. Current percentage rate of increase in base IT salaries: 5
  10. Number of Linux servers that will replace SCO UNIX at branches of the Farmlands rural retail cooperative in New Zealand: 28
  11. Number of farmers served by Farmlands: 15,000
  12. Number of Linux server shipments to Asia-Pacific in 2002: 18,000
  13. Sales in $millions for those servers: 58
  14. Projected number of Linux server shimpments to Asia-Pacific in 2007: 47,000
  15. Sales in $millions for those servers: 146
  16. Sum in dollars invested by venture capitalists for every man, woman and child in Silicon Valley by 2002: 18,000
  17. Minimum top number of computing nodes that will run Linux on IBM's new Blue Gene system: 65,000
  18. Number of CPUs in a single Blue Gene chip: 32
  19. Number of 32-CPU chips in a single Blue Gene computing node: 64
  20. Number of nodes per Blue Gene rack: 8
  21. Number of racks required to obtain a petraflop (quadrillion) floating point math operations per second: 64
  22. Size in millions of dollars earmarked the Blue Gene research initiative, announced in 2000: 100
Sources: 1, New York Times; 2, Terror & Technology Conference; 3-5, iTWeb news story; 6-9, Meta Group, Inc.; 10-11, New Zealand Herald; 12-15, Gartner Group; 16, John Doerr in Business 2.0; 17-21, CNet.

Ignore these:

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2003/0305090735.asp?A=HOME&O=FPIN

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,758684,00.asp (Meta)

http://domino.metagroup.com/pressHome.nsf/(webPressRelease)/9CC2683ECBD91B6185256CFC005064D7?OpenDocument

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3501481&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology&thesecondsubsection=information&thetickercode=

http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=19760&Catid=2&subcat=107

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-233954.html?tag=nl