My article was meant to be provocative and certainly was. Of course, aside from the pricing facts, everything was IMHO. Let's find a common ground here. I think everyone can agree that buying PowerPC equipment "for running Linux" directly from IBM is not cost effective. As far as being "out of touch" goes, a story I saw in PCWeek makes me feel a bit warmer towards Big Blue. http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015836,00.html