I truly wish I could write as well as Doc. Go read kuro5hin.org || Rebuilding the software industry, one word at a time not only for the sheer pleasure of the words but also for the premise:

The construction industry is as old as civilization. The software industry is as old as disco. it will only finish growing up when it becomes as much a part of civilization as construction.

This is why the best technology bets to make aren't on technologies and companies, but on technologists. That's what IBM was really up to when it declared itself a Linux company. Show me a big old company declaring its love for Linux and open source, and I'll show you a company in compliance with its own engineers. Linux was an IBM fact before it became an IBM strategy.