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Just out of curiosity, are you an end user, or are you actually in IT, familiar with the myriad of peripheral issues with an OS besides the initial install?

I've been in IT for close to 15 years and I can tell you that many smaller businesses are waiting for this legal mess to be over so they can migrate to Linux when MS finally decides to cut off NT.

There's no way Linux will ever touch the Mac market, but then, the Mac is essentially a niche anyway. I'd disagree that Linux will ever threaten "windoze for the masses". Quite frankly, most home users only use a browser. If it weren't for gaming, Linux would be a perfect choice. Although I'm fond of Win2k, I've found ME to be a disaster and XP to be not much better. Unless MS starts producing some better products or at better prices, a good business argument can be made for switching over to Linux, definitely on the server level, and probably at the workstation level. A lot of the resistance is due to MS's entrenched status in the market - Exchange and SQL servers are two good examples, but for the standard file/print/net access, web servers, etc. Linux is more than competitive on performance and (comparing other new software) very reasonably priced.

You'd likely be surprised at the number of businesses still running NT. When they see the fees MS will charge to force them to upgrade to whatever MS will call the next server OS, a lot of them will give a long hard look at Linux and many will switch. Once its on the servers, the desktops are just a step away. Right now, there's a cost to migrate to any OS and NT is doing just fine. Once MS forces that base to migrate, I predict you'll see a lot of businesses move to Linux.

Just MHO.

When they see the fees MS will charge to force them to upgrade to whatever MS will call the next server OS, a lot of them will give a long hard look at Linux and many will switch.

UPTIME . .
30 DAYS, 2 HOURS, 31 MINUTES . .

Several MAJOR changes , no reboot.

added a printer. no reboot.

linked up to the house cable internet router and installed, no reboot.

loaded monitoring software, new sound card, changed monitors and loaded drivers, no reboot . .

OS and software disks cost, $15.00

This ought to be interesting, seeing has how SCO is asking folks to pay the cost of a pretty good new computer for something that is not copy protected.

Reminds me of those folks that wanted $$$ because they claimed they owned the hyperlink . . . they were urinating in a hurricane too.