If beggars were horses, then fishes would wish, or something like that. Frankly, given the overwhelming investment in time, training, money and hardware, I don't look for any serious change to occur any time soon. We need to look forward to our own future. Well, get ready, 'cause Linux is IBM's Next Really Big Thing. Heck, take a look at last December's IBM e-business and Software News Alert.
People Use It, Love It.
Of course, IBM hasn't abandoned their Java efforts. Glad you asked. A Whole New Thing that's really Partly an Old Thing. After watching the fits that Windows 95 and ME have given my son, I'm not going there, even if it weren't so morally repulsive. I will game on a Windows partition, but I won't trust it for any of the serious work I have to get done.