LJ Index

  1. Number of Gannett newspapers that will "crowdsource" editorial from readers and bloggers: 91
  2. Number of U.S. intelligence agencies that will join to create "Intellipedia": 16
  3. Number of ways "distributive networks" of citizen journalists covered the November 2006 elections: 9
  4. Percentage of American businesses with fewer than 10 employees that don't have better than dial-up Net access: 60
  5. Minmum thousands of certificates Microsoft will distribute per year allowing their customers to use SUSE Linux: 70
  6. Minimum millions of dollars Novell will receive from Microsoft for those certificates: 240
  7. Rounded thousands in dollars per certificate: 3.4
  8. Linux-based among Netcrafts' Top 50 most reliable hosting providers for November 16, 2006: 23
  9. Windows-based among Netcrafts' Top 50 most reliable hosting providers for November 16, 2006: 11
  10. BSD-based among Netcrafts' Top 50 most reliable hosting providers for November 16, 2006: 7
  11. Solaris-based among Netcrafts' Top 50 most reliable hosting providers for November 16, 2006: 4
  12. Number of Linux-based hosters among Netcraft's top four for October 2006: 4
  13. Number of Linux-based hosters among Netcrafts's top ten for October 2006: 5
  14. Number of FreeBSD-based hosters among Netcraft's top ten for October 2006: 2
  15. Number of Solaris-based hosters among Netcraft's top ten for October 2006: 3
  16. Number of Windows-based hosters among Netcraft's top ten for October 2006: 0
  17. Position of IBM's Linux-based Blue Gene/L (at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) among Top 500 Supercomptuers for 2006: 1
  18. Trillions of calculations per second measured on Blue Gene/L: 280.6
  19. Other new Linux-based supercomputer clusters at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: 4
  20. Price in millions for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's four new supercomputer clusters: 11

Sources: 1, Wired News; 2, Washington Post; 3, NewAssignment.net; 4, OECD.org (June 2006 stats); 5-7, Silicon Republic; 8-11, Netcraft (over past 24 hours from time listed); 12-16, Netcraft.com, 17-18, Top500.com and IBM; 19-20, InformationWeek.

Source Links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110302015.html?referrer=emailarticle

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7357

http://newassignment.net/blog/david_cohn/nov2006/05/how_citizen_jour

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20604.wss

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194300198&subSection=Open+Source