A blast from my past uncovered in an incidental web-search and posing the question, Is Linux right on schedule for the mainstream? -- even if I say so myself, pretty darn good punditry from 13 January 2000, based on a subtext in my Y2K COMDEX presentation ...

Linux was invented as a research tool, and by 1996, as Bob Young's survey found out, it commanded a good share of that market. Bob introduced the Red Hat distribution of Linux for the server market in 1996 and he's right on schedule with his IPO ;). Mandrake started with their winning product of the Year in 1998, so that means any infrastructure to capture the average-user market needs to be in place by 2003, and Corel's bid to capture the office desktop won't be viable until 2004.

[ Source: Prime Time Linux ]