LJ Index, October 2008

  1. Number of Mozilla 3.0 downloads in 24 hours starting 17 June 2008: 8,002,530
  2. Position of the above download number among Guiness World Records: 1
  3. Minimum millions of Mozilla users: 180
  4. Minimum number of countries in which Mozilla is used: 230
  5. Millions of dollars in VC funding for open source vendors in 2007: 328.5
  6. Millions of dollars in VC funding for open source vendors in first half of 2008: 321.3
  7. Percentage increase in VC funding in first half of 2008 over 2007: 62
  8. Total billions in open source funding through first half of 2008: 2.80
  9. Age in years of a reported bug in BSD discovered in May 2008: 25
  10. Linux' market share percentage of counted browser visits in January 2007: 35
  12. Linux' market share percentage of counted browser visits in January 2008: 64
  13. Linux' market share percentage of counted browser visits in June 2008: 80
  14. Linux year-over-year percentage growth in server sales in Q1 2008: 8.4
  15. Linux server revenue in $billions for Q1 2008: 1.8
  16. Linux-based server percentage of all server revenue: 13.7
  17. Number of Linux-based laptops to be distributed to students in the Tamil Nadu state of India: 100,000
  18. Price in dollars for Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) in ValuSoft boxes at Best Buy and Amazon: 20
  19. Number of Linux distros listed on DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking: 100
  20. Position of Ubuntu among top distros in the 6 months ending 16 July 2008: 1
  21. Position of openSUSE among top distros in the 6 months ending 16 July 2008: 2

Sources: 1-4, SpreadFirefox.com; 5-8, 451 Group; 9, TheInquirer; 10-12, NetApplicaitons.com; 13-15, International Data Corp (IDC); 16, LinuxWatch; 17, DesktopLinux.com; 18-20, DistroWatch.com.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/07/01/vc-funding-for-open-source-rises-again-in-q2/

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/14/1975-unix-flaw-fixed

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpdt=1&qpct=4&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=90&qpnp=25

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21255808

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6504473525.html

http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS5306637369.html

http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=26

  1. Number of Dell Ideastorm requests among its top 20 involving Linux or Open Source (on 14 July 2008): 5
  2. Number of items in Direct2Dell/Ideas in Action involving Linux or Open Source (on 14 July 2008): 0
  3. Number of posts in the Direct2Dell/Archives with Linux tags: 87

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/tags/IdeaStorm_3A00_+Ideas+in+Action/default.aspx

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/default.aspx

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/tags/Linux/default.aspx