> The chapter was not accidentally left out. It is rare for a redbook > to change this way. The powers that be whom effected this change > come from a different part of IBM society. They have a different > viewpoint. They perhaps don't understand the significance of > the open source revolution.
They perhaps _do_ understand that 38% of IBM's net income is from proprietary software - which has a gross margin of over 86%. However elegant and intellectually satisfying the open source concept is, the jury's still out on when (or whenever) it's going to start paying the rent on Armonk. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
