LJ Index, January 2008

  1. Novell's Linux revenue in millions of dollars over the last reported nine months: 100
  2. Percentage increase of the above over the prior fiscal year: 243
  3. Number of square feet in the Microsoft-Novell joint development lab: 2500
  4. Red Hat revenue in $millions over the last reported quarter: 127.3
  5. Percentage growth rate represented by the above: 28
  6. Percentage of Russian school computers onto which Linux will be installed byu 2009: 100
  7. Number of Linux computers at the Takoma Park, MD public library: 28
  8. Thousands of times the above computers were logged into over the last year: 40
  9. Linux' market percentage share of Internet-connected PCs in January 2006: .29
  10. Linux' market percentage share of Internet-connected PCs in December 2006: .37
  11. Linux' market percentage share of Internet-connected PCs in September 2007: .81
  12. Percentage rate of growth for Linux' share of Internet-connected PCs in 2007, so far: 219
  13. Millions of dollars invested in Linux and open source companies by venture capital firms in Q3 of 2007: 77.8
  14. Millions of dollars invested in Linux and open source companies by venture capital firms in Q1 through Q3 of 2007: 226.7
  15. Millions of dollars paid for XenSource (open source virtualization) by Citrix in August 2007: 500
  16. Millions of dollars paid for Zimbra (open source email collaboration) by Yahoo in September 2007: 350
  17. Position of "Make Ubuntu laptops cheaper than Windows laptops (in all countries)" among the most popular ideas at Dell Ideastorm: 1
  18. Position of "Make Linux and no Operating system standard options on all future products" among the most popular ideas at Dell Ideastorm: 2
  19. Position of "Put Ubuntu on the list of operating systems when building a PC! among the most popular ideas at Dell Ideastorm: 3
  20. Number of results of a search on dell.com for "linux": 648

Sources: 1-5, CNet; 6, C-News Russian IT Review; 7-8, Phil Shapiro in PCWorld.com; 9-12, NetApplications.com, via Datamation; 13-14, The 451 Group, via InternetNews.com; 15-16, InternetNews.com; 17-19, DellIdeaStorm.com on 11 October 2007; 20, Dell.com on 11 October 2007.

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