e.steibler wrote Not really- MS will just send its sales force out after the higher-level managers who don't know much about computers, same as now, tell them how Linux is "unsupported" and other UNIXes are "proprietary" (and Windows isn't???), perhaps touch on the SCO threat, imply that UNIX admins are hard to come by and expensive... get them to commit to Windows as a platform and buy a 16p Itanium server with Windows Enterprise, thin clients, and a nice big $150 terminal license for each client. No nightmare there, the MS will probably also sell an Office license per client too.