LJ Index, December 2008

  1. Apache's percentage market share among Web servers in August 2008: 49.82
  2. Microsoft's percentage market share among Web servers in August 2008: 34.88
  3. Percentage Netcraft's top ten most reliable hosting companies that run on Linux: 40
  4. Position of Linux-based Hurricane Electric among Netcraft's top 10 most reliable hosting companies: 1
  5. Number of words in the Walt Disney Internet Group's Terms of service: 5,038
  6. Number of words in the AT&T Online Terms of Service: 10,944
  7. Number of words in the Verizon OnlineTerms of Service: 8,569
  8. Linux percentage share of the smartphone market in Q2 2008: 7.3
  9. (Soon to be open-sourced) Symbian share of the smartphone market in Q2 2008: 57.1
  10. Windows Mobile share of the smartphone market in Q2 2008: 13
  11. RIM share of the smartphone market in Q2 2008: 17.4
  12. Apple iPhone share of the smartphone market in Q2 2008: 2.8
  13. Linux adoption percentage at the 14 largest investment firms in 2006: 60
  14. Estimated Linux adoption percentage at the 14 largest investment firms in 2008: 72
  15. Dollars granted by the National Science Foundaton to Polk Community College and University of South Florida Polytechnic to create a four-year Linux computer-system administration program: 812,726
  16. Size in $billions of the global advertising market in 2007: 600
  17. Projected size in $billions of the global advertising market in 2012: 707
  18. Size in $billions of the interactive (mostly online) advertising market in 2007: 45
  19. Projected size in $billions of the interactive advertising market in 2102: 147
  20. Annual percentage growth rate of interactive advertising: 23.4

Sources: 1-4, Netcraft.com; 5, http://disney.go.com/corporate/legal/terms.html; 6, my.att.net/legal/tos ; 7, verizon.net/policies/vzcom; 8-12, Gartner, via Tectonic.co.uk; 13-14, CIO, 15, Orlando Business Journal; 16-20, The Kelsey Group.

active Advertising,” interactive advertising revenues will increase significantly from US$45 billion in 2007 to US$147 billion globally in 2012, representing a 23.4 percent CAGR.

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