Think of pay-fi as the Net's equivalent of the pay toilet. - Doc Searls
Alas, 2003 will not be the year of the enterprise Linux desktop; however, expect support from the large system vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM, and Sun to be on the increase for desktop Linux (from practically nothing in 2002) as they realize that they can sell more Linux servers if there is a viable desktop Linux. - Aberdeen Group
By 2007, we said one year ago, "No one will be fired for recommending Linux." Shortening our own timeline by four years, we suggest that an IT buyer might already be fired today for failing to consider Linux. That's a small step but one of Neil Armstrong caliber. - eWeek
Linux is a large component of our five-year computing strategy. We are investing and deploying it heavily in all areas of our Institutional Securities business. It’s currently being used for missioncritical applications in our Equity and Fixed Income Divisions. - Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Morgan Stanley’s global head of enterprise computing for the Institutional Securities business.
We’re no longer locked into a development platform. If we were going to port an application to [HP-UX], there would be some problems. Going with Linux, we can run the application on commodity hardware -- IBM, HP or Dell -- and take advantage of the benefits of the platform. - Bridget O'Connor, Lehman Brothers
The other thing is continuing to enable all the platforms in the IBM family of products. When you do that, then no matter where the customer interacts with us, Linux is a part of this picture. - Jim Stallings, IBM's Linux manager
It's the XP 'product activation' slavery agreement that drove me, finally, to Linux. And fortunately, a lot of the newer Linux distros now install nicely on any x86 machine. I've been able to install it successfully and then refer to the documentation to tweak it properly, just as I used to do with Microsoft's products before the cheap bastards shrank their documentation to a mere glossy advertisement brochure. - Thomas C. Greene in The Register