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"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

Dell is easier to manage and a lot better hardware in my opinion today, IBM has specific tools to work with their hardware and they COST a ton of money.

IBM is not the same company, they are a shadow of their former self, NO pc division, really nothing to write home about with their servers, really no storage EMC has that covered. No Operating System to set afire, AS/400, z/OS mega bucks and locked in.

Microsoft can go under, I am sure a lot of people felt that Enron would be around forever to, but look what happened. Mostly now IBM has tried to become a services company really servicing what???

Red Hat is growing and expanding their lineup, more offerings and the hottest Certification in the business. Microsoft MSCE does not really hold water anymore, it has lost its luster and companys are not moving to Vista so that is the flagship of MS...

Sounds like the Titanic has hit an iceburg and it has taken on some water, the trick is can they survive the leak or not? The underdog is hungry, MS is lethargic beast floundering around trying to squash anyone and everybody who is a threat. Meanwhile an entire userbase of software that is FREE has taken hold in the Enterprise, if that does not say something someone is asleep behind the wheel. I would not put my eggs in a MS basket I am sure people at Enron felt how high can this stock go I got $1 million in retirement now then the curtain was pulled back and the place was afloat with nothing.

OpenOffice is another example, FREE and it works great no virus infections, no license fees, then you got Evolution email client, FireFox seems to me naysayers are not in reality or they are scared the wave will take them out to the ocean. For example, you can take a RHEL5.1 Server and replace a few Windows 2K3 servers easily and have it locked down without worrying about viruses, hacks and so on due to the fact of implementing SELinux...

MS is scared and rightly so how, the catch is people develop and make OpenSource better because they want to not because it is a 8/5 job. That is the biggest difference and the fact that Linux was built for networking...

If MS was not worried about the future of Windows they would not be producing Windows Core without a GUI interface that shows they are grasping at straws. I am done with MS and I have been done for quite a while. I took a hobby and made it a career and another contender taking away from MS is VMWare...