LJ Index — December 2003

  1. Fine, in Euros, charged by the city of Munich against SCO for making unsubstantiated claims about Linux: 10,000
  2. Number of PC Club stores expected to stock computers with preinstalled LindowsOS: 51
  3. Number of years ibiblio.org has been distributing (and hosting with) Linux: 12
  4. Percentage of surveyed U.K. Web surfers who would rather give up mobile phones than the Web: 40
  5. Estimated size in $billions of the Linux server market in 2002: 2
  6. Estimated size in $billions of the Linux server market in 2007: 15
  7. Projected Linux installtion percentage on PCs sold in India by March, 2004: 10
  8. Indian percentage of the offshore IT services market: 60
  9. Estimated annual size in $ of the offshore IT market: 16
  10. Rupert Murdoch's predicted approximate long-term price for a personal video recorder (such as a TiVo) within one year: 0
  11. Price Echostar (DishTV) says it plans to charge for its PVR if customers sign up for two years, plus certain programming packages: 0
  12. Average annual earnings (EBIT) percentage growth target for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp: 20
  13. $billions in B2B transactions on the Net, worldwide, in 1999: 145
  14. Projected $trillions in B2B transactions on the Net in 2004: 7.29
  15. U.S. percentage of B2B transactions in 1999: 39
  16. Projected U.S. percentage of B2B transactions on the Net in 2004: 39
  17. Percentage of Sun Microsystems employees who don't have a permanent office: 40
  18. Percentage of Linux developers who say the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit will gave affect their plans: 6
  19. Microsoft's projected percentage Linux server growth from July 2003-June 2004: 24
  20. Microsoft's projected percentage Windows server growth in the same period: 9.5
Sources: 1, Heise Online; 2, Lindows.com; 3, ibiblio.org; 4, µthe inquirer; 5-6, Giga Information Group, via Veritas; 7, Red Hat; 8-9, Gartner Group; 10-12, Reuters; 13-16, Gartner Group; 17, Sun Microsystems; 18, Evans Data Corp.; 19-20, Jupiter Research.

Notes:

<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-02.09.03-000/>

<http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33992.htm>

<http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=9565>

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030811/tc_nm/tech_india_linux_dc>

<http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030908/media_newscorp_2.html>

<http://www.epaynews.com/statistics/transactions.html#1>

<http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/msft/archives/001202.html>