I feel sorry for the good folks I know who invested their time and money in this one. And for the girls who participated, too. It isn't what we're building. The other day Dave wrote about syndication models, one based distributing content and the other on distributing links. It' speaks from a wise carpenter's understanding of construction materials.
Construction is a mature industry.
Significantly, there is no Microsoft in the construction industry, although there are companies with larger revenues. More significantly, we hire architects and builders for their good work, not for their fealty to producers of building materials. We trust them to make good choices. Those professionals are taking over the industry. In my conversations with IBM over the past two years, it has been clear that the decision to develop on Linux was made first by countless engineers, not by managers higher up the nominal decision tree.