[The Duke]

From the Sun and Microsoft view, Linux has not proved robust enough to handle computing chores much beyond the edges of corporate networks.

"Pot, meet kettle"

Seriously, I've never heard of robustness being a problem for Linux.

[tortoise]

Seriously, I've never heard of robustness being a problem for Linux.

Its not a problem. There are critical communications related backbone devices (with the legally mandated extreme uptime requirements that go along with such devices) that run Linux kernels. Its as stable as anything else out there, and better than many.