{"id":3876,"date":"2010-01-07T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/01\/07\/numbers038\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:47:23","slug":"numbers038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/01\/07\/numbers038\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 38 &#8211; Christmas Leftovers Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/4215449701\/\" title=\"Christmas Day by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2754\/4215449701_8634e7d249.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Christmas Day\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we &#8220;don\u2019t do numbers&#8221; here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numbers each week. After a Christmas and New Year&#8217;s hiatus, the Numbers are back. Most of these are left over from before said hiatus. Nonetheless, enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, don&#8217;t forget our <a href=\"http:\/\/greenmonk.net\/category\/greennumbers\/\">Green Numbers<\/a> series over at Greenmonk!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/23\/harris-interactive-poll\/\">The New Boob Tube<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Survey results published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/\">Harris Interactive<\/a> suggest that <strong>adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. About 14% spends 24 or more hours a week online<\/strong>, while <strong>20% of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To put things in perspective: Harris <strong>surveyed 2,029 adults by telephone<\/strong> for an entire week in July and October 2009, and has been doing these types of polls since 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Harris concludes that the <strong>average hours spent online have increased from 7 hours from 1999 to 2002, to between 8 and 9 hours in 2003 to 2006<\/strong>, and surged after that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.cisco.com\/dlls\/2009\/prod_121609c.html?CMP=AF17154&amp;vs_f=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&amp;vs_p=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&amp;vs_k=1\">Clogging the Tubes<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally, the <b>average broadband connection (primarily residential subscribers and some business users) generates approximately 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Per connection per day, this amount is <b>roughly equivalent to downloading 3,000 text e-mails, 100 MP3 music files or 360 text-only e-books<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Globally, the <b>average broadband connection consumes about 4.3 gigabytes of visual networking applications<\/b> (advanced services such as video, social networking and collaboration) traffic per month.<\/li>\n<li>Per connection per day, <b>this amount is roughly the equivalent of approximately 20 short-form Internet videos or approximately one hour of Internet video<\/b>, whether streamed on its own, embedded in a Web page, or viewed as part of video communications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/12\/28\/flurry-app-store-sees-record-breaking-christmas-50-growth-from-november-to-december\/\">Android vs. iPhone<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <br \/>\n  [T]he App Store is still destroying Android. Despite a lot of momentum and buzz behind Google\u2019s vaunted, developer-friendly mobile OS, it really isn\u2019t holding a candle to the iPhone OS. <strong>App Store downloads are 13 times greater than the Android Market<\/strong>. Additionally, the fact that <strong>the already-mature App Store saw a 50% monthly growth rate versus the Android Market\u2019s 20% is impressive<\/strong>. One would think that the App Store growth would plateau at some point, but it doesn\u2019t show any signs of leveling off just yet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/09\/12\/18\/apples_iphone_commands_46_of_japanese_smartphone_market.html\">iPhone: Big in Japan<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/253580145\/\" title=\"Pork Chop Head by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/100\/253580145_a51abaf32f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Pork Chop Head\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  New data <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=1&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impressrd.jp%2Fnews%2F091210%2Fsmartphone2010&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en\">released this week<\/a> from Tokyo-based research company Impress R&amp;D shows the <strong>iPhone 3G taking 24.6 percent of the [Japanese] consumer smartphone market<\/strong>. The <strong>iPhone 3GS, released this year, accounts for another 21.5 percent<\/strong>. Most of those gains came <strong>at the expense of the Sharp WillCOM W-Zero 3 Advance, a phone with a 3-inch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard<\/strong>. <strong>In 2008, the phone was the most popular in Japan with 26.8 percent of the smartphone market<\/strong>. This year, <strong>its share tumbled to 14.6 percent<\/strong> while the i<strong>Phone 3GS was introduced, and the iPhone 3G saw a slight gain of 0.9 percent<\/strong>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidefacebook.com\/2009\/12\/18\/indonesia-led-facebooks-growth-in-asia-during-november\/\">Facebook in Asia<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Asian countries<\/strong> continued to see more Facebook growth in November, <strong>gaining 3.86 million people to end at 63.5 million monthly active users<\/strong>&#8230;. <strong>Indonesia was on top, with 1.68 million new users<\/strong>. The country currently <strong>has the largest number of Facebook users in the region with 13.9 million monthly actives<\/strong>. However, this <strong>is still only 6.1% of its 229 million people<\/strong>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2009\/12\/15\/jim-corgel-interview\/\">Localizing Online Communities<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"video embed\">\n<blockquote><p>\n  Does it pay off? You bet it pays off. <b>When you look at the emerging markets where we have made an investment in some local dialect, the growth, it rises in the first 12 months by over 40%, every single time<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2009\/12\/15\/jim-corgel-interview\/\">the video of the interview<\/a>, see <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/2010\/01\/04\/the-future-of-ibm-developerworks\/\">the full transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastechpulse.com\/rackspace___6m_paid_email_mailboxes\/s-0025845.html\">Email in the Cloud<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <b>Rackspace Email &amp; Apps division<\/b>, a provider of cloud-based applications, now <b>has more than 1.6 million paid mailboxes<\/b> through its hosted email products. Rackspace offers hosted email and Microsoft Exchange services through its Email &amp; Apps division. Rackspace offers the email hosting service as an alternative to in-house email servers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/thomas_wailgum\/erps_paralysis_problem_and_the_repercussions_for_businesses_everywhere\">Cemented ERP<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Survey respondents said that <b>the inability to easily modify their ERP system deployments<\/b> is disrupting their businesses by delaying product launches, slowing decision making and delaying acquisitions and other activities that <b>ultimately cost them between $10 million and $500 million in lost opportunities,<\/b>&#8221; according to the survey report. (That&#8217;s a substantial gulf in &#8220;lost opportunities,&#8221; but we&#8217;ll chalk that up to the size differences in companies surveyed.)<\/p>\n<p>That related impact is costly: <b>21 percent of respondents reported declines in stock price<\/b>; <b>14 percent suffered revenue losses tied to delayed product launches<\/b>; and <b>17 percent encountered declines in customer satisfaction<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, there&#8217;s been some good commentary around this general idea &#8211; &#8220;enterprise software is broken&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Israel Gat <a href=\"http:\/\/theagileexecutive.com\/2009\/12\/28\/make-the-hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck-stand-up\/\">commented on the piece<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theagileexecutive.com\/2009\/12\/30\/is-there-something-inherently-un-agile-about-erp-software\/\">followed-up with another<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2010\/01\/02\/Doing-It-Wrong\">Tim Bray had a nicely articulated version of the complaint<\/a>, evoking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2010\/01\/02\/Doing-It-Wrong#comments\">some good comments<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As you&#8217;d expect from a blog called &#8220;IT Project Failures,&#8221; Michael Krigsman has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/projectfailures\/?p=7838\">an entry replying to Tim Bray&#8217;s piece<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10426409-16.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">Matt Asay ponders enterprises &#8220;piggybacking&#8221; on consumer services<\/a> (gasp!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1001_3-10417082-92.html\">&#8220;For better or worse, this is how tech M&amp;A sector has trended over the last few years.&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s generally been a quiet year for technology merger and acquisition deals with the <b>2009 value total for tech M&amp;A activity reaching $142 billion<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the451group.com\/report_view\/report_view.php?entity_id=60821&amp;dealbook=refer\">according to recent data<\/a> from technology investment research firm The 451 Group. To provide context, <b>the second quarter of 2008 alone saw $173 billion in tech M&amp;A deals. The median deal size in 2009 was $40 million, contrasted with a median of $43 million in 2008 and $100 million in 2007<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>From <b>January to November 2009 there were only 31 technology transactions valued at $1 billion or more<\/b>, and The 451 Group reports that <b>all of the high-multiple deals took place in the second half of 2009<\/b>, resulting in <b>M&amp;A spending running 50 percent higher than in the first two quarters<\/b>. Notable deals include Dell&#8217;s purchase of Perot Systems and <b>Cisco Systems&#8217; pair of $3 billion acquisitions<\/b> in October.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the big companies get bigger while smaller, often niche players act as acquisition feeding grounds dependent on the number customers and\/or users they acquire as well as how well they fit into a bigger company&#8217;s strategy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/121409-mobile-holiday-work.html?fsrc=netflash-rss\">Re: Merry Christmas<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/3140949955\/\" title=\"ICE at the Gaylord Texan by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3100\/3140949955_b0da415ca9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"ICE at the Gaylord Texan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Intermedia <b>surveyed some 200 small and midsize businesses to learn IT pros<\/b>&#8216; holiday work plans. The results differed largely from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/node\/9338\">similar study<\/a> conducted in <b>2006, which showed 84% of high-tech workers intending to travel to the office during the holiday season<\/b>. <b>This year&#8217;s results found that 42% of those polled plan to make the drive into work<\/b>, while a majority of IT pros said they would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2008\/102908-telework.html\">telework<\/a>, checking in on e-mail and other work issues from home this holiday season. <b>Eighty-two percent of business managers intend to log in remotely, and 75% of IT staffers will also<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/newsletters\/edu\/2008\/061608ed1.html\"><b>telecommute<\/b>,<\/a> the Intermedia survey found.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sogrady\/status\/6969455663\">Eat That, Economic Crater!<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\n  excluding a couple of pending deals, <b>@<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RedMonk\"><b>RedMonk<\/b><\/a> <b>grew 14.84% in &#8217;09<\/b>. in the worst economy we&#8217;ve seen since the 30&#8217;s. very proud of the team.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for clients mentioned and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web consumption way up, iPhone vs. Android, regional community, bad ERP, &amp; more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-software","category-numbers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}