[Snerfling]

The real competitive victim of Linux is not MS, but Sun. I can't see why an 'average' user would switch their desktop over to Linux from Windows at this point, but for someone experienced with Solaris, Unix, et al, Linux is a snap.

Loaded onto a souped up Pentium, techies can build very high performance servers for a pittance. SUNW has no chance.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Which begs the age old question, why hasn't SUNW bought Red Hat yet???? It's a marriage that should be made in heaven....

[usconservative]

The real competitive victim of Linux is not MS, but Sun. I can't see why an 'average' user would switch their desktop over to Linux from Windows at this point, but for someone experienced with Solaris, Unix, et al, Linux is a snap.

Exactly right. Linux on a cheap, high-end Intel clone is displacing the Sun/HP/SGI (are there any of those left?) workstations. Linux is also displacing the low end Unix market, specifically the single & dual processor servers.

Linux w/Apache has huge support in the Webserver market already. Linux's ability to run .NET is going to eat away at Microsoft's WebService/Office Integration initiatives. It'll happen slowly, but it'll happen.