Don't forget the people that have staked their careers on M$ have also bought M$ stock and want that stock to be more valuable. Why would they let people bring anything else in to the work place. IBM on the other hand wants to win everything no mater what the product. As a past IBM employee, I had to have 3 wins every quarter to show that I was making IBM money. I constantly had to prove that I was being productive. Not only in my work but in the time I spent at work. IBM requires a minimum of 48 hours every week (every week). I would work circles around other people and I still had to put in 48 hours every week. The measure is unfair to the people that can work faster and produce more results then other employees. I would end up doing other peoples work just to keep my hours up. But that is the way IBM wants it, and that's why I left. Why should I pickup the the slack from slackers? So you see if you blame M$ for all the bad in the industry without looking at the full view of the industry you are missing the truth. IBM looks good to the Linux community now but if Linux is not profitable, IBM will drop Linux like a hot potato. BTW M$ had the most productive quarter ever I don't think M$ is going anywhere. Sam. Brian Hurt wrote: >On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 markdeb.browne at comcast.net wrote: > > > >>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=88655 >> >> > >"No, no- that's just their shipping product. Think it's bad now- you >should have been here back in the nineties. Whoa boy!" > >I'm not so sure. I'll be exstatic if I'm wrong, but my gut sense at the >moment is that Microsoft isn't going anywhere. Up or down. > >Because what's supporting Microsoft at this point is not technology or >economics, but politics. Corporate politics, in the companies. The >people in power have staked their careers on Microsoft being the way, the >truth, and the light, and will fight by any means necessary being proven >wrong. > >Of course, I may be slightly cynical because the company I work at just >lost a big sale because our embedded servers ran Linux and not Windows. >It's an embedded server- what the eff do you care what OS it runs? It >works, what's the problem? No I don't want to drink your damned koolaid, >or buy a flower. > >Brian > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- 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