IBM has over 300,000 employees world wide. I don't know what M$ numbers are but it's big. Yes IBM has helped the open source community but, IBM helped because it sees profit. Just like it sees profit in M$. If you look at what almost happened when a big auto maker almost failed I think you will see what would happen if M$ starts to falter. Sam. Jack Ungerleider wrote: >On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:16 am, markdeb.browne at comcast.net wrote: > > >>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=88655 >> >> >> > >First things first, a large diverse company, and MS is that at this point, >with a lot of cash in the mattress (or bank) isn't going to die an time soon. >Witness: IBM. What will have to happen is new leadership will have to be >found to evolve the company further. Once the monopoly is truly broken then >we'll find out what MS is really about. For what it's worth we may all be >surprised. > >Jack > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005