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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17696)3/2/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
The mythology of Windows NT 5.0 wcmh.com

For many users--including IS managers charged with a frustrating "We're going to NT" mandate from their corporate executives and the obvious competitors Novell Inc. and Unix vendors--NT 5.0 so far is mostly a huge pain in the not-very-mythical butt.

Hey, it's NT2k, the OS for the Next Millenium. What did you expect?

I've had several conversations in recent weeks with IS management types who have stated matter-of-factly that they don't expect to see NT 5.0 until the middle of next year at the earliest. Microsoft still says that it will ship a product called NT 5.0 sometime later this year, although what will be in that product remains a mystery, maybe even to Microsoft.

This climate of delay and suspicion means that those managers I talked with won't be greeting NT 5.0 with smiles and handshakes when it arrives, but rather will circle it, smell it, and poke it for quite awhile before trusting that it really is what they've been waiting for.

Meanwhile, you'll hear more trumpeting from Microsoft and get more demands for NT standardization from the suits. The myth grows.

Bill and the Dilbert's bosses of the world will get us yet. Who knows what it's going to be, but you better standardize on it or you're dead meat.

Cheers, Dan.
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