Text 36003, 52 rader
Skriven 2007-08-13 16:17:06 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 35993 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Win XP Refuses to Die
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In article <37104$WIN95@JamNNTPd>,
 "Charles Scaglione -> bryan hamilton" <cs@nomail.com> wrote:

 CS> bryan hamilton -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

 CS>>> servers. Most US government agencies for example, have long
 CS>>> since put NT away in favor of Win2000 server orWin Server
 CS>>> 2003. I wonder just how many large corporations or
 CS>>> companies are in fact still using NT server? Regards. -!-

 bh>> well here's the deal. over here in ny, my local dmv is still running nt
 CS>   4
 bh>> workstation and nt4 server. I know because i've seen. it is nutty.
 CS>   maybe
 bh>> they
 bh>> like old hardware, software. idk. personally I run NT 4 only for my bbs
 bh>> box.
 bh>> nt4 is so old and useless these days its sick. even 2k is pretty old.
 bh>> but at
 bh>> least it supports by far more hardware, software. plus its pretty
 CS>   solid.
 bh>> personally I believe 2k is the best OS microsoft has ever put out and
 CS>   will
 bh>> ever put out ever. it's all down hill frm there. all my machines run
 CS>   some
 bh>> distro of linux. execpt like I said my bbs box and my kids box.

 CS> First, welcome to the echo.....

 CS> Like I said to Alan I was surprised to hear that NT server is still
 CS> being used that much.  The problem with any corporation or business
 CS> running NT server any kind is that it has long since run out of support
 CS> life.  But I guess it's easy enough to support in house - although I
 CS> can't understand why any company would not upgrade.

 CS> If money is the reason (which shouldn't be for any federal, state, or
 CS> local government agency) then they should consider moving to Linux.  I'm
 CS> running Ubuntu and XP on this machine but find myself doing the majority
 CS> of my internet and personal email, FIDO, etc. while in Ubuntu.  I boot
 CS> into XP only to do my ministry work.

More an issue of 'if it ain't broke, why fix it?' Moving to
Win2000/Windows 2003 Server or to Linux, etc has costs-- even if the OS
is free, upgraded hardware costs, and staff time to do the upgrade,
test, etc is potentially very expensive.

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