LJ Index

  1. Worldwide server sales, in $billions, for the first quarter of 2004: 11.5
  2. Year-to year percentage revenue growth in server sales: 7.3
  3. Year-over-year server unit shipment growth percentage: 22.4
  4. Unix year-over-year server revenue percentage decline: 3
  5. Windows server revenue percentage growth: 16.4
  6. Windows server shipment percentage growth: 26.5
  7. Linux server sales percentage growth: 56.9
  8. Linux server shipment percentage growth: 46.4
  9. Number of consecutive quarters of double-digit Linux server evenue growth: 7
  10. Number of $billions in worldwide quarterly factory revenue approached by Linux: 1
  11. Number of consecutive quarters in which Linux servers sales have exceeded $900 million: 2
  12. Peak number of simultaneous listeners to the Linux-powered Radio Paradise: 5,647
  13. Linux market opportunities in China, in $millions, by 2008: 41.9
  14. Linux market opportunities in Japan, in $millions, by 2007: 105
  15. Thousands of Linux-certified practitioners at IBM: 3
  16. Thousands of people at IBM that have "some kind of Linux exposure": 12
  17. IBM revenue percentage growth in 2004 over 2003: 20.5
  18. Number of Oracle servers at city of Bergen (Norway) moving to Linux: 8
  19. Number of Windows application servers being consolidated to Linux servers in Bergen: 100
  20. Approximate number of Linux servers to which Bergen's app servers are being consolidated on IBM eServer BladeCenters running Linux: 20

Sources: 1-11, International Data Corp., 12, Radio Paradise; 13-14, International Data Corp. via InternetNews; 15-16, Times of India; 17, International Data Corp.; 18-20, ZDNet.

Notes:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=pr2004_05_25_194643

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/34228.html

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/buy.php?code=020604

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/740506.cms

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39157677,00.htm

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3367941

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  1. Percentage probability of a "catastrophic malware [virus, worm, trojan, et. al.] attack in 2003: 2.5
  2. Percentage probability of a "catastrophic malware [virus, worm, trojan, et. al.] attack in 2004: 38