{"id":2280,"date":"2009-02-19T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/19\/numbers001\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:11:07","slug":"numbers001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/19\/numbers001\/","title":{"rendered":"Number, Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is this?<\/h2>\n<p>I see a lot of numbers all week, every day. As we like to say at RedMonk, &#8220;we don&#8217;t do numbers.&#8221; That said, it does seem like content I&#8217;m missing out on. To that end, I&#8217;m starting up a new little series here on the blog, simply titled &#8220;Numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As my notebook fills up with numbers, I&#8217;ll periodically post them here, occasionally with some commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what you think.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/02\/16\/apple_handheld_lead_admob_jan_09_figures\/\">Mobile browsing<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Apple handheld browser share, rated by ad requests: <b>18.4%<\/b>, top of the list with iPhone and iPod Touch combined. Followed by RAZR with <b>3%<\/b>, then Nokia&#8217;s N70 with <b>2.5%<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing here is how quickly Apple has been climbing to the top of these types of charts. It&#8217;s also interesting to note how small of a base even the top runner has: the mobile web market is far from winner takes all. Compare to IE\/FireFox\/Safari\/Opera splits, where IE <i>still<\/i> dominates, compared to this kind of break-out. Also, as a former RAZR user, those RAZR people have to be hurting.\n<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2009\/02\/15\/did-adobe-snub-apple-with-flashplayer-10-and-development-fund-announcements\/\">Adobe Flash Lite Mo&#8217;<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Strategy Analytics (Jan \u201809 Report), more than 1 billion devices shipped with Flash Lite by the end of Q1 \u201909 &#8211; one year ahead of schedule. Additional <b>1.5 billion<\/b> expected to ship within next 2 years.<\/li>\n<li>According to Strategy Analytics (Jan \u201809 Report), close to <b>40%<\/b> of all new mobile phones and devices worldwide shipped with Flash Lite in \u201808. Also, Flash Lite shipments experienced a <b>100%<\/b> year-over-year growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/news\/press\/moonlight-shines-on-the-linux-desktop\/\">Moonlight, already useful?<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Moonlight has already proven useful to <b>tens of thousands<\/b> of Linux users. A pre-release of Moonlight was delivered on January 19, 2009 to allow Linux users to stream Barack Obama&#8217;s Inauguration. More than <b>20,000<\/b> Linux users downloaded Moonlight to watch the Silverlight broadcast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.digitalbackcountry.com\/\">Ryan<\/a> and I talked about this a bit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaweekly.com\/2009\/02\/17\/riaweekly043\/\">the previous episode of <i>RIA Weekly<\/i><\/a>. What we&#8217;re most curious to see is what the Moonlight RIA community will do as there haven&#8217;t been that much interaction with RIA technologies from the traditional open source communities.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/news\/releases\/capacity-manager-planner.html\">Virtualization Potential<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced a milestone [over the life of the product] of nearly <b>2.5 million<\/b> systems discovered as candidates for virtualization using VMware Capacity Planner, the most proven tool for optimizing virtualization deployments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workswithu.com\/2009\/02\/15\/groundwork-open-source-meets-ubuntu-server-edition\/\">GroundWork &amp; Ubuntu<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  GroundWork Open Source says nearly <b>one-third<\/b> of its newest customers are deploying its network management software on Ubuntu. Here are the early details. (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10165559-16.html\">More over on Matt Asay&#8217;s blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bitrock.com\/about_news_groundwork_network_service.html\">from BitRock<\/a> as well.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2009\/02\/06\/ubuntu-survey-tidbits\/\">RedMonk recently worked on a survey with Canonical about Ubuntu usage<\/a>. There seems to be a lot of it out there.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackducksoftware.com\/news\/releases\/2009-01-27\">Black Duck Mo&#8217;<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Closed 2008 with year-over-year gain of <b>42%<\/b> in bookings<\/li>\n<li>Added <b>28<\/b> new customers in Q4 2008, ending year with total of <b>620<\/b> customers<\/li>\n<li>Subscription and services business grew by <b>65%<\/b> in 2008<\/li>\n<li>Significant customer growth in mobile and telecom sectors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Microsoft, Adobe, and Groundwork are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this? I see a lot of numbers all week, every day. As we like to say at RedMonk, &#8220;we don&#8217;t do numbers.&#8221; That said, it does seem like content I&#8217;m missing out on. 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