{"id":2848,"date":"2009-06-29T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/06\/29\/numbers017\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:24:24","slug":"numbers017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/06\/29\/numbers017\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While we “don’t do numbers” here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numeric statements each week. Here are some:<\/p>\n

“Hi, I’m Kenny, I’m 14 years old, and I love playing those damn video games.”<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n According to both Neilsen and the Pew Internet Life Project, Echo [a kid who clocked in 14,000 of those damn text messages<\/strong>] is an outlier, a user of texting at prodigious levels beyond her peers. A Neilsen study from the second quarter of 2008, for example, says that mobile phone users age 13-17 send or receive an average of 1742 texts per month<\/strong>, which would only require 7.25 hours [to produce]<\/strong> by my reckoning. So Echo is an outlier, but on the other hand her data is fresher and texting IS rising at a rapid pace.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Kids Are All Right…to sell to!<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n According to Nielsen, teenagers are far from abandoning TV for so-called new media. In fact, television viewing rates among U.S. teens have actually gone up 6%<\/strong> in the last five years. Sure, they browse the Web a lot, but far less than you do. The average time spent browsing for an adult person in the United States comes down to about 29 hours and 15 minutes per month<\/strong>. While I reach that average almost on a daily basis, teens are said to browse the Web a lot less than that: 11 hours and 32 minutes per month on average<\/strong>. I honestly thought the average teen would spend that much time on the Web a week, at least.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shipping Eclipse<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Also, the target platform break-down<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n Mac accounts for five per cent<\/strong> of Eclipse downloads while Windows has slipped from 90 per cent to 80 per cent<\/strong>. Linux, meanwhile, is on 14 per cent<\/strong> of downloads.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ruby Growing, but Still Small<\/a><\/h2>\n
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According to a new study from Evans Data, Ruby use is on the rise in North America. On a year-over-year basis, Ruby usage has increased by 40 percent so far in 2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But, even with the big increase, Ruby is still far from being pervasive. Evans’ study found that only 14 percent of developers in North America use Ruby some of the time<\/strong>. They are currently forecasting the number to rise to 20 percent for 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oracle Revenue<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Oracle saw a seven per cent drop in revenue for the fourth quarter<\/strong> ending May 31 to $1.8bn (\u00a31.1bn) on revenue that fell five per cent to $6.8bn (\u00a34.1bn)<\/strong>….<\/p>\n

Sales of software licenses and overall software revenue<\/strong> – that includes support and updates – were also down 13 per cent and three per cent respectively to $2.7bn (\u00a31.6bn) and $5.7bn (\u00a33.5bn)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For the year, Oracle saw a one per cent bump in net income<\/strong> – effectively flat – to $5.6bn (\u00a33.4bn) on revenue that grew four per cent to $23.5bn (\u00a314.3bn)<\/strong>…. but overall software revenue grew six per cent to $18.8bn (\u00a311.4bn)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Solution Looking for a Buyer, or, “Really?”<\/a><\/h2>\n

\nMajor takeaway from today at the Gartner IOM event is that less than 5% of the fortune 2000 have an active CMDB installed<\/strong>!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For follow-up, see the discussion over at the IT Skeptic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Seconds Matter<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Bing found that 1 sec. slowdown == 2.8% revenue loss<\/strong>; 2 sec. slowdown == 4.3% revenue loss<\/strong> (via @souders<\/a>) #velocityconf<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hadoop Racks up the Numbers<\/a><\/h2>\n

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PC Sales Down<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Shipments [of PCs] for the quarter totaled 66.5 million units<\/strong>, down from 72.3 million<\/strong> in the same quarter the year before. Desktop shipments dropped 23 percent<\/strong>, compared with a 10 percent gain for notebook computers<\/strong>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, see Ashlee Vance’s write-up of the rise\/rebirth of Acer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPhone Sells 1M in a Weekend<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Apple has announced that over 1m iPhone 3G S units have been sold since the handset was launched last week.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Roughly 6m iPhone owners have also already downloaded that latest version of iPhone firmware \u2013 version 3.0 – since 17 June, Apple added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Twitter<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Twitter had an estimated 18 million users in May<\/strong> and has grown into the third-largest social-networking site<\/strong>, according to research firm ComScore Inc. Facebook Inc. is the largest, with 307.1 million users in April<\/strong>, followed by MySpace with 126.9 million<\/strong>. Stone, 35, shot down talks of a buyout by Microsoft Corp. or Google Inc.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re not having those acquisition discussions, we\u2019re not engaging in them,” he said in during the 56th annual Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, which takes place this week.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Twitter has held four rounds of venture funding since its start in 2007<\/strong> and isn\u2019t currently seeking more funds, Stone said. Media reports have put the total funding figure at $57 million<\/strong>, which Stone didn\u2019t dispute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Disclosure:<\/b> The Eclipse Foundation and Cloudera are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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