"The war is over and Linux won"

[Andy Green]

Andy Green wrote:

> Novell put up some blather here

Larger view in terms of how effective we Linux users and advocates have 
been, and how Linux experts are the future; and why MSFT desperately 
shells out millions with a competitor to try to find an 'in':

''A new IBM-sponsored study on Linux sent me by Joe McKendrick, our SOA 
expert, goes a long way toward explaining the big Oracle and Microsoft 
moves regarding Linux.

The war is over and Linux won.

...

The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It 
shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux 
next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger 
enterprises, but the direction is clear.

...''

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=837