They have reached a level where they should start experimenting. The 9.10 does work just fine for me on the desktop since its release. If I am honest to myself - it has everything I need for now. Just out of enthusiasm upgrading would be a natural thing to do. But because I have once compiled the Amarok 1.x for 9.10 I am too lazy to upgrade and recompile.
My wife uses 10.10 on her laptop and when she at the desktop she does not notice the difference with 9.10. Not to say that there is no difference, but 9.10 was already good enough.
So if Ubuntu does not get noticeably (like "Wow!") better incrementally, they should start experimenting.

Take Amarok, then.

ask a credible question in the first place?

Can it actually be big enough not to care about PCI at all, because with 70 mln accounts they could economically implement their own fraud detection system.

You say you have unlimited budget - just buy Novell back from Attachmate. There will certainly be one or two knowledgeable guy who could run your network for you.
For giving you such an amazing advice for free, may I suggest you keep Novell suing SCO out of their pants?

When everybody and their dog are on Facebook, those who are not, have certainly something to hide. :-)
Like the house where bin Laden was reportedly hiding - had no phone and internet connection - evil!

Fujitsu ScanSnap500 is the device that does the batch scans. This is actually the only thing I still use Windows for.

Bitcoin has just reached the parity with USD yesterday, if what reported is correct.

Having an app signed is a good thing for business devices. It takes away the burden of verifying every single one developer of that 99cent flashlight app yourself. On the other hand I totally get the GPL3 motivation. So may be there is a meaningful way that resolves both challenges - the one of a user and of a tinkerer.

this was my comment, did not notice that FF4.0 have not took over the cookies from the 3.6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namcub
How long does it take before there is a hotkey combination for Emacs? And until it is applicable to humans?

I am working in a big corp myself. Pretty much everybody who can get an iPhone drops BB.
Only the geeks like me keep the BB. :-) :-(
And for me the reason is twofold:
- I am a data analyst so my email and data really have to be secure.
- And I am a Linux user at home and at work need to have Windows. So no Apple laptop and no use of iTunes too.
My case is really a exception where I work, though.
So no, general office folks don't care about all this stuff and get themselves an iPhone.

If BB platform becomes unattractive for lack of apps and goes belly up there will be nothing to compete for.

I totally hear what the article author is saying about the Playbook.
Just to give BB credit, where it's due, development and deployment for BB _handsets_ is actually free. The only thing you have to pay for is for inclusion into the BB app store. And this, only after the 10th release currently.
For the handsets you need a key to sing your apps if you want to use BB API. The keys registration fee was lifted just recently. To deploy you can put your app on any web-server and share the link for installation.
Unlike iPhone there is no jailbreaking needed for "out of app store" install.
I have just written a BB app and offering it for free under GPL for installation here