"Many thanks to those of you who commented on my first post, and to the many more of you who sent e-mails giving me some additional food for thought. Given the volume of e-mails with some similar themes, I thought I'd clarify a few things, in terms of our view of open source and where it is going.
"While I didn't say it explicitly, when companies like IBM, HP, Novell, Dell and even Sun are driving the adoption, deployment and support of various parts of the LAMP stack in the enterprise, it's safe to say that the ecosystem for many open source projects is thriving..."
