LJ Index

  1. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) percentage for Linux servers in China for the next five years: 49.3
  2. Approximate number of developers contribute changes to Linux on a regular basis: 1000
  3. Percentage of the above who are paid to work on Linux by their employers: 10
  4. Percentage of the latest 38,000 changes to Linux that were made by those paid to work on Linux: 97.4
  5. Billions of dollars generated by Linux for related products and services in 2003: 2.5
  6. Number of issued, but not yet court-validated, patents on the Linux kernel: 283
  7. Average cost in $millions, of patent infringement defenses: 2-4
  8. Number of IBM patents on which the Linux core might infringe: 60
  9. Number of patents IBM intends to enforce in respect to Linux: 0
  10. IBM share of the Linux market: 32.6
  11. HP share of the Linux Market: 29.1
  12. Value in $millions of Cloudscape, the relational database open-sourced by the IBM: 85
  13. Number of internal IBM projects on which Cloudscape is used: 75
  14. Footprint, in MB, of Cloudscape: 2
  15. Approximate thousands of IT jobs listed on Dice.com: 49
  16. Aproximate hundreds of IT jobs listed on Dice.com that require Linux skills: 22
  17. Percentage increase in above number over the last year: 190
  18. Number of IT jobs listed on Dice.com that require Linux certification: 10
  19. Position of Apache in Netcraft Web Server Survey: 1
  20. Apache share percentage in latest (August 2004) survey: 67.37.

Sources: 1, CCID Consulting, via Oracle; 2-4, Andrew Morton; 5, Morgan Reed, Association for Competitive Technology; 6-7, Open Source Risk Management; 8-9, 12-14 LinuxInsider; 10-11, Gartner, via Linux Insider; 15-18, Computerworld; 19-20, Netcraft, Ltd. <http://netcraft.com>

Notes:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040720/sftu010a_1.html

http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26641-1.html

http://www.ostg.com/bcg/bcg-0.73/BCGHackerSurveyv0-73.html

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,95163,00.html

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/35602.html

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

For later?

    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

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