LJ Index — May 2004

  1. Percentage of surveyed enterprises that say they will increase Linux spending next year: 60
  2. Percent surveyed that say they will increase Linux spending by 6% to 10%: 17
  3. Percentage surveyed that say they will increase Linux spending next year by 10% more than last year: 43
  4. Percent surveyed that say their top spending on Linux will be in upgrading the OS: 35
  5. Percent surveyed that say their top spending on Linux will go to server hardware upgrades: 30.5
  6. Percent surveyed that say their top spending on Linux will go to data center migrations: 29.5
  7. Projected increase factor in hardware spending at UAL Loyalty Services: 10
  8. Percent surveyed that say data center migration is top priority among Linux-related projects for 2004: 30
  9. Percentage of above who say they'd be spending up to $99,000 on that migration: 13
  10. Percentage of above who say they'll be spending between $100,000 and $499,000: 52.7
  11. Number of months it takes IT to get an internal application to full deployment: 9
  12. Thousands of PCs in a French study toward the possible replacement of Windows with Linux: 17
  13. Hundreds of applications in the same study: 6
  14. Hundreds of servers in the same study: 4
  15. Thousands of police computers switched to Linux from Windows in Lower Saxony, Germany: 11
  16. Percentage of all European computers that now run Linux: 15
  17. Percentage that said "Wait" in response to the eWeek survey of respondents' willingness to wait until 2006 for Microsoft's Longhorn OS: 35
  18. Percentage that said "Switch to Linux desktop" in response to the eWeek survey of respondents' willingness to wait until 2006 for Microsoft's Longhorn OS: 40
  19. Popularity position of Red Hat among all Linux distributions, according to Netcraft: 1
  20. Fastest growth position of Debian among all Linux distributions, according to Netcraft: 1

Sources: 1-10, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com; 11, IDC; 12-16: ZDnet; 17-18, eWeek, 19-20, Netcraft (www.netcraft.com)

Notes:

<http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci949902,00.html>

<http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci950213,00.html>

<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39145902,00.htm>

<http://www.eweek.com/poll_archive/0,3044,p=1253&bn=1,00.asp>

<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debian_fastest_growing_linux_distribution.html>

See IEEE spectrum feb 04