We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
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