> I'm just imagining the level of jaw dropping and brain exploding that would have gone on had that same headline been published in 1998. I worked at IBM at th

> I'm just imagining the level of jaw dropping and brain exploding that would have gone on had that same headline been published in 1998. I worked at IBM at the time and we had internal-use-only versions of a lot of major IBM AIX/Unix software running on Linux by 1998. Our experiments with running it directly on big iron started around then too. At least in my area most of the engineers were moving from X terminals to Linux desktops at that point so porting the software they were working on was inevitable.