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actually, LOTS of offices are scheduling changeovers in os to linux derivatives in the next six months. The war is over alright. we shall see.

I use ms on lots of systems. AND I was amazed at the latest mandrake release. AMAZED. The interoperability between mac graphics servers, unix os's and microslop... was almost unbelievable. I give it 18 mos or less before ms sues them in open court for some sham of a reason to STOP market penetration. They will break 15-20 percent in the next 18-24 mos, the game is afoot. Don't believe it? Just wait and see. I KNOW it... and am NOT a linux convert yet. I REMEMBER how trends felt, when the world moved to pc's from mainframes... and this move back towards unix and more open os's is a predictable and palpable one for me. It WILL happen. Too bad linux has no "stock" to buy, THEY would be my first candidate for the current trend AWAY from microsoft by LOTS of system administration folks... some of whom are in the military.

Just wait... and scoff if you will, Gates will NOT be scoffing in the next 18-24 mos.

There are plenty of Linux companies out there you can buy stock in, so if you want to invest, jump right in. The stock can be had quite cheaply these days.

Understand that I'm not opposed to open source; quite the opposite in fact. I like the concept but that doesn't mean it's gonna work on a wide scale. I haven't installed a Linux distribution in a while but I'll bet much of the process is still Greek to the average PC user.

I heard all the ballyhoo about the new StarOffice and how much of an MS Office-killer it was. Went ahead and did the 100 MB download a couple of weeks ago. It failed to open (in readable fashion) the first .doc file I gave it. Tinkered with it a few more times and quickly saw that it was all a bunch of unfounded hype and uninstalled it.

I'll watch with interest but don't expect any major changes.

Good nite...