Nice reporting on Win2000 Mike:
Meanwhile, confirmation has come from another source close to Microsoft that there is disquiet in the corporate world about W2k.
Our source claimed that it is avoided by most corporation as a NOS because of the simple fact there is "almost no certified software for it".
Our mole adds: "According to the Microsoft's HCL, Hardware Compatibility List, on their web site, there are only 7 software suites certified to be compatible with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, the version that corporations will be using. No virus software, no system management software.
"Although IBM DB2 and MS SQL are certified recently, Oracle, SAP, Access and hundreds of common software are not. No wonder W2K looks increasingly like Windows 3.0, waiting for Whistler to really launch it as a network platform for corporations."
He claimed: "Microsoft has not released any figures on corporation W2K server migration figures, almost a year after its release. The fact is, there are significant interoperability problems with other software, with driver availability, with skills scarcity, not to mention the tremendous learning curve and cost of change of implementating W2K, which is so different and so complicated that most corporations seems to want to wait for Whistler instead."
theregister.co.uk
Must be one of the reasons I can't find a used copy of NT 4.0 Server on eBay for less than $200.
Does anyone remember the O'Reilly NT 4.0 Workstation registry tweak to change it to NT 4.0 Server? I can't find the link anymore.
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