He was writing for The Inquirer around 10 years ago - e.g. http://www.linuxtoda...harlie+Demerjian/

You're looking at the present and the recent past in corporate environments. Charlie is look at the overall computing market and the near-term future. Growth isn't in PCs and Windows seats. It's in mobile and tablets and MS is continuting to get killed there.

As people do more and more on their tablets and phones, they won't need MS Office as much, and then the lock-in with Winders and Server and SQL Server and the like won't exist either. MS needs to get their head together if they want to be relevant away from the corporate setting. IOW, there's money to be made in corporate IT still, but it's not a growth area. And for most corporations, if you're not growing, you're dying.

Citrix started off as a MS OS/2 licensee and built stuff on top of it. They're still doing that, but their growth market seems to be GoToMyPC and the like - http://www.gotomypc....ess/remote_access - which allows remote access from almost anything with a web browser (it seems). They would likely be dead in the water without things like that. (Just a guess.)

FWIW.

Cheers,
Scott.