http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41527,00.html Well, I guess I might as well pack it up and switch to Windows 2000, eh? Once again, the MS Exec's prove themselves to be short-sighted. From their "three key Linux trends to watch for in 2001:" 1) "A static growth rate." Well, I doubt it, but hey, when you're already the biggest-shipping sever OS (IDC, for 1999.. or 2000?), you don't have a great deal of room to grow. So *maybe* this will happen. 2) "lessening mainstream interest in the open source operating system" Uhm, yeah, I'm sure Oracle, IBM, and Sun are going to change their minds about their billions of dollars in investments. Yup. 3) "and a sharp decline in Linux-based companies' stock value" This one, I believe. But there are two problems with this: One, Wall street is about 99% clueless. If you believe M$'s stock price, for example, you should read between the lines a bit more. If you believe VA's stock price, you might be missing out on the chance to make some money. Stock values are always either way over or way under, and in the meantime, no one's actually paying attention to what the company actually has to offer. Two, who cares about what the stock price is? Since when has stock price been a factor in how many NT machines versus how many Linux machines I install? Hell no, I install Linux because I don't *ever* get paged at 2am to go fix a problem -- it has nothing to do with how well VA's stock price is. VA's only been around.. what? a year? Linux has been creeping into the server room since 1991, and will continue to do so, even if the big "Linux companies" go under. We don't need a company - that's the whole point of this thing in the first place. Duhhhh... :) Oh, and in this article, they point to the "recent security problems with Linux," but they neglect to mention that the problem they linked to was a problem with BIND, a DNS server that runs on all Unices (and I believe there's a port to Windows). That's a BIND problem, not a Linux problem. John -- # John Madden weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 2EB9EA # FreeLists, Free mailing lists for all: //www.freelists.org # UNIX Systems Engineer, Ivy Tech State College: http://www.ivy.tec.in.us # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free! ============================================================= Avenir Web's Linux Discussion List List info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=13 To unsubscribe: email linux-discussion-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx =============================================================