[buaya]

"Linux is gaining steam everywhere but especially on Wall Street, where some information technology executives say they are demanding that their technology providers have a comprehensive Linux strategy. Microsoft is the only major technology company without one. Can it hold out forever?"

Microsoft DOES have a comprehensive Linux strategy - it's called FUD.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I just had this urge to strand that Linux penguin, the "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!" guy, and Larry Ellison on an island and let them fight it out.

[The KG9 Kid]

My worthless opinions:

1. Linux is cool, even if it doesn't do anything useful for a typical end user except to let them browse the WWW.

2. Apple OSX is cooler than Linux, which is what everyone who fiddles with a Linux PC ought to really be using.

3. IBM's adoption of Linux is akin to what they were doing ten years ago with OS/2, which was another OS superior to anything MS had. OS/2 is still around running ATMs flawlessly. This is the future of Linux.

4. There's nothing that a Linux PC can do that a Sun system can't do better -- even though it may cost a little more.

5. Hell with all this Linux crap anyway. I use WinXP on my home PC.

[TechJunkYard]

Oracle and Dell are both seeing growth in their Linux businesses... Dell... expects to ship 12% "or better" of its servers with factory-installed Linux this year, up from 8% to 10% last year. International Data Group expects market revenue for Linux-based relational databases, which is what Oracle sells, to surpass Unix-based relational databases by 2006, to $6 billion. Oracle doesn't break out product sales by platform but the company says the demand for Linux is high.

Linux is getting a lot of attention in the corporate world now. Lotus has a Domino server for Linux (and I've got the beta). Citrix, Real, Adobe and others have supported this platform for years. Good to see.

Is Microsoft fighting a losing battle? Will it continue to distance itself from all things Open Source? Dunno... Office runs on Macs now and there was a time I never thought I'd see that happen. MS could, if it wanted, port some apps over and distribute them Object Code Only (OCO), and only need to arrange licensing with the folks who make KDE and Gnome... but to the detriment of their own desktop. Perhaps write their own Display Manager to emulate the Windows desktop, which no self-respecting Linux user would ever install... and DON'T bother porting IE. ;-)

Hey, MS can have the desktop; There's lots more to it than that. I just don't think there's much of a market for MS products on Linux.

[ChadGore]

LINUX: The Ultimate Windows Service Pack.

[rdb3]

This news is bittersweet to me. While I'm a serious Linux (Redhat 7.3) user, I absolutely deplore Larry Ellison and Sun Microsystems.

At any rate, if this is what's needed to advance in technology to provide more choice, I'll accept it. Still can't stand Ellison, though... X-(