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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (135622)	12/12/2001 9:54:17 PM
From: fedhead	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Why not ? Last I checked the PBX replacement market makes the router market look pretty insignificant. We are talking 200 billion at least to replace the legacy phone switches , not to menttion all the services business that this would generate. Listen we could argue about this till the cows come home and I couldn't change your mind and you couldn't change mine. Time will tell who is right. Thanks Anindo

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (135622)	12/13/2001 2:11:28 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

Vic, I wonder why IBM is investing $1 billion in Linux OS? I have no position in any company other than IBM who promotes Linux. Well, that's not quite true... I almost forgot Nokia, but that's a Finnish thing. >IBM is investing more than $11 billion a year in research and development, and plants and equipment to build up such information utilities, from which companies can lease computing resources. Included in that total is $1 billion that IBM is investing to support the Linux operating system, which is open source--that is, available to all to tap into at no cost or restriction, unlike Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary Windows operating system, which imposes costs and restrictions. latimes.com