I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

This is the last hurrah for the current architecture. The next version of Microsoft's consumer operating system, Windows 2000, will be based on [a Windows] NT kernel. The business user transition from Windows 95 to NT Workstation is gradually emerging.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

It's something any operating system vendor has to have.

With Linux, it's the #2 server operating system, and we're seeing that migrations are by and large successful. But companies are less successful using it in a mixed environment. That's the problem we set out to solve.