Suoko’s Weblog: waiting for his Maiko to land

I dug up a few numbers that Greg missed.

• Worldwide Employees (2007)
  • Canonical: ~130
  • Red Hat: ~2200
  • Novell: ~4100
  • IBM: 386,558 …note that IBM’s headcount is accurate to 6 significant digits, and the others are fuzzy
    
• Revenue (2007):
  • Canonical:(probably somewhere south of the following numbers)
  • Red Hat: $523 million USD
  • Novell: $933 million USD
  • IBM: $98,786 million USD (yes, that’s a hundred billion dollars)
• Years in Existence
  • Canonical: 4 (founded in 2004)
    
  • Red Hat: 15 (founded in 1993)
    
  • Novell: 29 (founded in 1979)
    
  • IBM: 119 (founded in 1889)
    

So, yeah, Canonical is a small, young company.  It would be nice if Greg would normalize some of his numbers against each company’s size.

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P.S.: in italy we mainly have PMI (small and medium companies)