[Brookhaven]

Linux will be no threat to Microsoft until my mother can install it.

You are confusing desktop machines with backend servers.

Microsoft will continue to dominate the desktop. It has never dominated the server market. Unix variants (and the companies that provide them like Sun) are the dominant players on the backend. The customers here are companies with IT departments filled with computer experts, people like your mother.

[LiveFree2000]

I am not confusing anything. You are ignoring the threads topic (Linux is a threat to Microsoft) and forgetting
where the money is; it is certainly not in the back-end. Sun is a failure because they could not bridge that gap.