The only reason for the post was to inform the the linux community
about how management pukes see their operating systems. Like all points of
view, it is incomplete and flawed. I thought that their comments were pretty
positive for that type of review. Probably if the Gartner group would give a
totally 100% go ahead it would mean that Linux was obsolete and ready for
the junk heap. This is sort of how you can view some news organizations.
They are almost as out of sync with the real world as clothing stores. Here,
in Montana, where I live, the clothing stores are starting to get in their
summer stock. Here outside my house, I have a half a foot of snow on the
ground. I've heard that if you get your photograph on the front page of Time
magazine then it means that your fame is pretty much over. This is how I
look at this kind of viewpoint. They, the news orgs aren't quite ready for
the change, which means for the real world, that it really is time.
I sent this article to a friend who I have been trying to get to use LInux
for about 2 years, and when he saw this article, he said that this made him
think that he was ready to try it right now. He used to be a corporate puke
himself, so he knows how to interpret these kind of articles. I was really
interested in seeing exactly how the /. readers would view this article.
Apparently not too many corporate types post to /., though I wish they
would, it would improve the balance of views.

Anyway
thanks for your comments
Doug Moreen
Silicon Mountain Technologies
VAR. for Windows, Linux, Mac Be machines
dogem@initco.net