Augury and reading chicken bones for profit... (wasPun-ditry...)

[John Esak]

>
> The underpinnings are just fine.  It's a dearth of applications software
> that's the problem.  That's vastly improved in the time span
> since 1993, or
> even 2000.  But it's still the major obstacle to full-fledged adoption in
> anything but server and embedded markets--meaning the desktop, mainly.

This is _exactly_ what I said to Tony in the FP Room today. As a server...
no problem, I'm a *nix guy from the word go... as a desktop, though... I
don't see it happening in any big way soon. I'm not against it, I just don't
see the option yet.

John