“Nine months ago we wanted to help Linux move forward, but we had to move behind the scenes. I'm no longer nervous about talking to enterprise customers about Linux.”
“But I'm no longer nervous about talking to enterprise customers about Linux and that is a big change. We consider Linux a tier-one platform that will be available for all our server products and we have made a major commitment to support it.”
“But you need a good something else, and Linux is a good something else. I predict Linux will grow even faster than NT. We will have real competition at the operating system level and that is good for everyone.”
“I think that people actually would rather pay $30 a year for cleaner gasoline than $20 dollars a year, or every other year and take their car in a get it E-checked.”
