LJ Index — October 2003

  1. Millions of requests for Python in May, 2003: 11.9
  2. Thousands of different servers making requests for Python in May 2003: 325k
  3. Dollars (equvalent to ¥188 million) the Japanese goverment will spend on a new IBM/Oki payroll system using Linux: 1,590,000
  4. Number of Japanese goverment employees whose payrolls will be handled by the new payroll system: 800,000
  5. Yearly costs to Japan in $billions (¥350 billion) for its current payroll system: 2.96
  6. Expected percentage savings to the Japanese governemet in $billions from implementing the new Linux-based system: 1.48
  7. Dollars spent each year on proprietary software licenses by the South African Government: 352
  8. Years Linux has been in use by the Canadian National Railway: 10
  9. Wireless LAN equipment sales in $billions by 2006: 4
  10. Thousands of technicians certified by the Linux Professional Institute: 27
  11. Thousands of (Linux-based) TiVo customers: 750
  12. Projected millions of households that will have TiVo-like PVRs (personal video recorders) by 2006: 30
  13. Percentage of advertisers who say they will cut TV ad spending, based on projected PVR penetration: 76
  14. Thousands of Linux-based HP workstations producing movies at DreamWorks: 1
  15. Thousands of Linux-based processors in render farms at DreamWorks: 3
  16. Millions of lines of code ported to Linux by Pixar: 300
  17. Broadband penetration percent in Korea: 70
  18. Broadband penetration percent in the U.S.: 35.9
  19. Apache market share (%) among top Web servers in July 2003: 63.72
  20. Microsoft IIS market share (%) among top Web servers in July 2003: 25.95
Sources: 1-2, Guido van Rossum; 3-6, Reuters; 7, Infoworld; 8-10, CanadianBusiness.com (sourcing Forrester Research); 11-13, Business Week (sourcing Forrester Research); 14-16, eWeek; 17-18, WebSiteOpptimization.com; 19-20, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com>

Notes:

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<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3057549>

<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/08/HNafrolinux_1.html>

<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185330,00.asp>

<http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columns/article.jsp?content=20030707_54765_54765>

<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2003/tc20030627_1133_tc119.htm>