E01¶


Research	R0045 — Prediction Verification
Run	2026-03-29
Query	Q004
Source	SRC01
Evidence	SRC01-E01
Type	Testimonial

Phil Moore predicted Morgan Stanley would be a 90% Linux shop by 2006-2007

URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7730

Extract¶

Phil Moore, Executive Director in the UNIX Engineering team at Morgan Stanley, spoke at the OSCON 2004 "Commercial OSS Business" breakout session. He stated: "I work for the 38th-largest company in the world, Morgan Stanley. We have a billion-dollar IT budget." He predicted: "by 2006 or 2007, we're going to be a 90% Linux shop." Moore noted the company was primarily Solaris-based at the time but "rapidly moving to Linux," describing exponential growth of open source in their infrastructure over the preceding decade. He differentiated between infrastructure (Linux-bound) and desktop (Microsoft).

Relevance to Hypotheses¶

Hypothesis	Relationship	Strength
H1	Contradicts	Moore was not an audience challenger to a hostile panel
H2	Contradicts	The incident was documented
H3	Supports	The event occurred but with different dynamics than the query describes

Context¶

Moore was a speaker at the session, not an audience member challenging hostile panelists. The session was titled "Commercial OSS Business" — it was about enterprise open source adoption, not a debate about whether Linux could succeed. This is a significant factual difference from the query's framing.