2004 reviews: Facts and figures

20.12.2004
Von InfoWorld news

Compiling 289 reviews meant looking at lots of numbers -- here are some we found interesting

App Dev

7.9: Average overall score for developer tools we reviewed

6.8: Average Value score for the rich Internet application products we reviewed

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Applications

6.2: Average overall score among the six CRM solutions we reviewed

$51,571.29: Average starting per-CPU cost for the portal solutions we reviewed

1: Number of IM solutions we tested that supports a Linux server OS

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Data Management

$2,166.70: Average monthly fees of the hosted content-management solutions we reviewed

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Hardware

3.8: Average color graphics pages printed per minute by the color laser printers tested

86.9 lbs.: Average weight of monochrome laser printers we tested

7.9: Average overall score of storage management products reviewed

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Networking

2,754 miles: Distance between the Honolulu and Las Vegas networks used to test VOIP monitoring tools

8.0: Average score of wireless products reviewed in 2004

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Platforms

4.5: Average manageability score of Linux desktop products reviewed in 2004

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Security

48,198: Total number of spam messages received during testing

$82,698: Total cost of all firewalls, as tested

8.3: Average score of app security products

92 percent of IT managers polled say their organizations had been infected with spyware (Source: Harris Survey)

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Storage

8.5: Average overall score among all storage products we reviewed