Having just decided to move from Unix to NT, many organizations have abandoned Unix at the precise moment it can deliver what for many years was just a promise. We now sit at the threshold of NT 5.0 arriving in the market and already we are looking at the next alternative. Actually, what's happening is that people have begun to see what NT can do for their businesses, and they are afraid. Down-time costs an awful lot of money. Actually, check out the Open Source site to find out why this is exactly what Open Source advocates are not saying.
Stable software is a win in both respects.
It certainly reads a lot like the French press release that Microsoft issued, which overall was a defense of Microsoft products against the EU investigations into Microsoft's market practices, but took similar pot-shots at Linux. My primary feeling is that this is a good thing. Linux has reached a level of notoriety which will attract such knee-jerk reactions. Now, we just need to keep the same focus on quality code, and Linux should be around for a long time. Mr. Butler will just have to cope with getting a more stable computing world.