A Computerworld article reports that IBM hopes to move 40,000 of their desktop users to Linux by years' end. Although that's just a fraction of their 300,000 employees, it's an encouraging trend. I'm not a big Linux fan; there are better alternatives. But it's good to see the Windows stranglehold loosened a little. As an IBM customer, I've long been frustrated by their assumption that everybody uses Windows; many of the tools they provide for customer interaction don't work on other platforms (including Linux). Maybe now they'll have to be a little more flexible.