>>>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11OneMicrosoft.aspx
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/microsoft_reorg_kills_product_groups/
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>>That is really major. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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>>Bill K., I don't see this as a reason to jump ship to Linux. If anything it shows MS is not interested in becoming obsolete and will make radical changes. This is still a very powerful and talented organization.
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>Best reason I've come up with so far to switch is simply money. Get yourself a free OS and use open office. That saves you buying windows and office. Consider if your in a situation where you have a bunch of machines hey you can suddenly be talking about some serious bucks. Ditch SQL server and use MySQL that can be a a lot dollars too.

Victor, have you given up sleeping completely? ;-)

As to your point, I think there is still a suspicion in corporate and government IT (and moreso management) of going in that direction. It's happening but maybe not as fast as some people think.