> SuSE has a dominant position in Germany, so imho has the best chance.
Make that Europe. As the article pointed out, the linux vendors mentioned had dominant market share on different continents, not sure why you give SuSE the best chance. I think linux vendors putting themselves together is a very good idea, I'm getting a bit sick of this everyone-anything rubbish. I also dislike monopolies and companies who think a big market share grants right to exception from agreed standards (don't we all). Red Hat is remarkably similar to Microsoft. > caldera is quite popular among corporate users. You may have to differentiate. For the USA you're probably/possibly right, I don't know. What info do you have for other continents? > Germany were most dominant in OS/2 at one time, unfortunately it didn't > help :( One could argue that IBM blew it :) Even now I do not exactly get the impression that IBM is interested in taking on Microsoft. Megabigservers maybe, but that's not exactly MS's core business. I don't see IBM offering anything up to scratch on the desktop market (yet anyway, tendency steeply downhill). Of course I'd like to be put right... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
