Pushing Linux in and of itself is a dead end, goes the theory. The only hope these people really have is to 1) make a product so good that enterprises cough up the dough on a yearly basis for updates, or 2) be swallowed by IBM and become a Linux R&D division for big iron.

This particular outlook won some water cooler bragging rights this week, as the two most viable commercial Linux outfits, SUSE (ne้ SuSE) and Red Hat, announced acquisition by bigger fish and formalized major business model shifts, respectively.

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