The columnist Jason Perlow of ZD Net makes an intelligent reading of what the recent financial debacle of Lehman Brothers and AIG mean for the future of the IT sector. As well as the lives of millions of Americans will be affected by that event, so too will the consumer habits of big business, which in turn will impact on the expenditures incurred on technology.

The key is "Strengthening the infrastructure and its effect as an agent of change as they reduce the cost of IT, jobs included. For example, we will see an aggressive adoption of disruptive technologies such as virtualization, SaaS (Software as Service), Computing Cloud (Cloud Computing) and of course the Open Source.

Once the infrastructure is consolidated in this way, the focus will turn inevitably to the desktop, which in turn will seek to eliminate more infrastructure Thin Clients, virtualization and Linux desktops.

Is Linux finally imposed in this way?

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