LJ Index

  1. Trillions of icy objects in the Oort Cloud surrounding the Solar System: 6
  2. Number of stories in 30 days that mention Linux, in the Wall Street Journal: 53
  3. Number of stories in 30 days that mention Microsoft, in the Wall Street Journal: 399
  4. Number of stories in 30 days that mention IBM, in the Wall Steet Journal: 141
  5. Sum in dollars charged to Microsoft by the European :
  6. Millions in dollars paid by Microsoft to Sun Microsystems to resolve pending antitrust issues: 700
  7. Millions in dollars paid by Microsoft to Sun Microsystems to resolve pending patent issues: 900
  8. Millions in royalties to be paid by Microsoft to Sun Microsystems to license Sun's technology: 350
  9. Total sum of the above, in billions of dollars: 1.95
  10. Number of years for which Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have agreed to a "covenant not to sue for damages": 10
  11. Total dollars Microsoft could pay Sun Microsystems not to sue for damages: 450
  12. Thousands of jobs Sun said, after the announcement, it would cut: 3.3
  13. Transactions per minute (tpmC) of Oracle Database 10g on an NEC Intel system running SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9: 609,467
  14. Price-performance ratio in $/tpmC of the above: 6.78
  15. Size in $billions of the embedded software market in 2002: .675
  16. Projected size in $billions of the embedded software market in 2007: 1
  17. Mandrake percentage in DesktopLinux's 2004 Desktop Linux survey: 20.3
  18. Red Hat percentage in DesktopLinux's 2004 Desktop Linux survey: 19.3
  19. SuSE percentage in DesktopLinux's 2004 Desktop Linux survey: 16.0
  20. Debian percentage in DesktopLinux's 2004 Desktop Linux survey: 11.1

Sources: 1, Solarviews.com; 2-4, The Wall Street Journal search page, April 8, 2004; 5, ; 6-7, eWeek; 8-12, JavaWorld; 13-14, Oracle; 15-16, Gartner, in Business Week; 17-20, DesktopLinux.com

Notes:

percentage in DesktopLinux's 2004 Desktop Linux survey:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1561770,00.asp

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040330_8251_tc167.htm

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2004/jw-0412-idgns-patent.html