You were not remotely alone. Dissatisfaction with Linux by professionals at the time (surrounding 2005) was more than enough to counter Linux's growing populari

You were not remotely alone. Dissatisfaction with Linux by professionals at the time (surrounding 2005) was more than enough to counter Linux's growing popularity, verve and momentum. Hard to believe that they actually caused Big Blue to act immediately and stop their premature global Linux deployment and their massive Linux marketing campaign cold. This proved to me, at least, that IBM was still alive, and did, in fact, if surprisingly, listen to their customers.