LJ Index

  1. Minimum bandwidth in Mbps required for 1080p HDTV: 30
  2. Days required to download a standard 7.8Gb DVD movie file over 56Kbps dial-up: 13
  3. Record number of terabits per second sent over a 160km link: 2.56
  4. Equivalent number of DVDs per second: 60
  5. Percentage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome wants covered by free wi-fi: 100
  6. Percentage of online consumers who express an interest in podcasts: 25
  7. Percentage of online households in North America that regularly download and listen to podcasts: 1
  8. Versions of Unix running at Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab: 15
  9. Versions of Linux running at Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab: 50
  10. Billions of dollars in PC-based point of sale (POS) systems sold in North America in 2005: 6
  11. Linux percentage share of North American POS system sales in 2005: 9
  12. Linux percentage share of North American POS system sales in 2004: 5
  13. Millions of dollars in Linux sales in Chica in 2005: 11.8
  14. Percentage growth of Linux in China from 2004-2005: 27.1
  15. Expected compound annual growth percentage rate of Linux sales in China over the next four years: 34
  16. Projected millions of Linux sales, in dollars, at the end of the next four years in China: 51.1
  17. Percentage probability that open source will compete with closed source products in all infrastructure markets by 2008: 80
  18. Percentage probability that 75% of all mainstream IT organizations will have formal open source acquisition and management strategies: 80
  19. Percentage probability that mainstream IT organizations will consider open source software in 80% of their infrastructure-based software investments: 70
  20. Percentage probability that open source will be included in mission-critical software portfolios within 75% of Global 2000 enterprises: 90

1, Wayne Caswell; 2-4, Gizmag; 5, New Media Musings; 6-7, Forrester Research; 8-9, Microsoft Open Source Software Lab; 10-12, Linux Devices; 11-16, Silicon.com, sourcing International Data Corp. (IDC); 17-20, Gartner;

http://www.gizmag.com/go/5396/

http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2006/03/meeting_mayor_n.html

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2006/04/forrester_podca_1.html

http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39157982,00.htm

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=CN321110N

http://blogs.openlogic.com/blogs/page/stormy?entry=gartner_oss_predictions

Unrelated notes from the F2C conference:

make no design out of fear. 45 mins (during ? at etech or sxsw?)

we need a regional nove3l about the planet earth.