LJ Index, June 2008

  1. Millions of people who access the internet every day from a cybercafe: 500
  2. Number of Linux-based Web hosting services in Netcraft's top 20: 21
  3. Number of Linux-based Web hosting services in Netcraft's top 25: 13
  4. Number of Linux-based Web hosting services in Netcraft's top 10: 5
  5. Number of Linux-based Web hosting services in Netcraft's top 1: 1
  6. Number of open source (Linux, BSD, Solaris, F5 Big-IP) OS-baed web hosting services in Netcraft's top 50: 29
  7. Number of Windows-based hosting services in Netcraft's top 50: 12
  8. Linux percentage growth year-over-year in the North American POS (point-of-sales/service) terminal market: 32
  9. $Millions in latest year of Linux POS sales in North America: 475
  10. Position of cost among the top IT concenrs in Australia: 1
  11. Minimum $billions to be spent annually on SMB (small/medium business) technology in 2012: 615
  12. $Billions spent annually by the IT insutry to reach and influence buyers: 174
  13. Predicted annual Linux server sales, in $billions, predicted in 2004 for 2008: 9.1
  14. $Billions spent on Linux servers in Q4 2007: 2
  15. $Billions spent on Unix servers in Q4 2007: 5.2
  16. $Billions in combined Lnux/Unix server sales in Q4 2007: 7.2
  17. $Billions spent on Windows servers in Q4 2007: 5.7
  18. Linux server sales growth rate percentage in Q4 2007: 11.6
  19. Percentage growth in server blade sales in Q4 2007: 54.2
  20. $Billions Sun Microsystems paid for MySQL: 1

Sources: 1, Jooce.com; 2-8, Netcraft.com, for February 2008; 8-9, IHL Group, via Linux Devices; 10-19, IDC, via TechRepublic, ITJungle, BetaNews, IDC and HitsLink; 20, San Jose Mercry-News.

Sources

http://www.jooce.com/

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8365122751.html

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5481103.html

Linux and Windows Server Sales Outpace the Market in Q4

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030308-story02.html

Growth in servers and mainframes may be slowing down

http://www.betanews.com/article/Growth_in_servers_and_mainframes_may_be_slowing_down/1204582249

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=TGC4GXCCHJNDOCQJAFDCFEYKBEAVAIWD?containerId=prUS21125908

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8367857

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=34Q3GTBL400D4CQJAFDCFEYKBEAVAIWD?containerId=210984

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=AZ61610SP