LJ Index

  1. Number of top ten most reliable hosting providers in September 2006 that run Linux: 8
  2. Number of top ten most reliable hosting providers in September 2006 that run 'unknown": 2
  3. Number of top ten most reliable hosting providers in September 2006 that run Windows: 0
  4. Number of the top fifty most reliable hosting providers that run Linux: 23
  5. Number of the top fifty most reliable hosting providers that run FreeBSD: 6
  6. Number of the top fifty most reliable hosting providers that run Windows: 12
  7. Number of the top fifty most reliable hosting providers that run "unknown": 5
  8. Number of the top fifty most reliable hosting providers that run Solaris: 4
  9. Number of sites surveyed by Netcraft: 97,932,447
  10. Results in a search for "linux" at Google codesearch: 4,280,000
  11. Number of lines of code indexed by Koders.com: 424,227,372
  12. Results in a search for "linux" at Koders.com: 179,222
  13. Results in a search for "linux" at Krugle.com: 700,529
  14. Billions of dollars in sales for the Linux server sub-market in Q2 of 2006: 1.5
  15. Percentage increase in Linux server sub-market sales for Q2 of 2006: 6.1
  16. Linux server shipment percentage growth for Q2 of 2006: 9.7
  17. Blade server sales percentage increase for Q2 of 2006: 37.1
  18. Blade server shipment percentage increase for Q2 of 2006: 29.7
  19. IBM's percentage share of blade server sales for Q2 of 2006: 39.5
  20. HP's s percentage share of blade server sales for Q2 of 2006: 38.9

Sources: 1-9, Netcraft.com on 8 October 2006; 10, codesearch.google.com; 11-12, Koders.com; 13, Krugle.com; 14-20, International Data Corp.