Three misc thoughts: 1) To me there seems to be a long distance between "no place for open source" vs "open source will shape but not win..." 2) While it may

Three misc thoughts: 1) To me there seems to be a long distance between "no place for open source" vs "open source will shape but not win..." 2) While it may be so that "the vendors of today are the same vendors of 10 years ago"; that does not hold true when sliding this 10yr window back in time. I certainly don't think its fair to say this will needs hold true in future either. Maybe the best that can be said is that "vendors appear to have time constant of around 10yrs" 3) What's with all this talk of "winning" anyway? Winning implies there is an end / finish line - tech is so transitory I don't know if its possible to say anyone has ever "won" anything, maybe "dominated" for some period of time, but its never really over, is it?