One observation seems to have created a bit of a stir:

"Linux has failed as a desktop alternative to either Microsoft's Windows or Apple's Macintosh operating system, and last year, according to a study by the International Data Corporation, Linux sales actually slumped."

Which gets back to Tim O'Reilly's comments posted on Dave Farber's IP list a couple days ago: it seems like OS X is becoming a popular desktop alternative to Windows, and Linux is becoming the server alternate. Linux servers and Mac OS X desktops integrate very nicely, since both sides will find familiar tools (terminal, ftp, NFS et al. for the Linux crowd and AppleTalk and easy Mac interfaces for some BSD apps for the Mac crew).

Both OSes are more reasonable than Microsoft's proposed new pricing (although I wonder if Apple is riding on MS' monopoly pricing to get away with the full-price Jaguar upgrade), even if Apple hardware continues to be pricey (but cool). Be interesting to see how many iBooks and other Apple hardware comes to LinuxWorld.. My OS X-equipped G3 laptop will be there...
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