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To: rudedog who wrote (8897)	7/2/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (3) of 74651

You asked how it would hit the brick wall. Let me say it briefly. When the medium to larger businesses realize that NT cannot be used for NT solutions (as was promoted and promised by MSFT marketing people) they will scale back the usage of NT or rip it all back out all together. If you dont think that would happen, let me tell you that it already is happening all over. One big example was the Australian bank that had such disasters with its enterprise rollout that they are backing out of NT (after spending millions trying to implement it) and the IT Director was canned. When these stories become more frequent and more publisized, other IT Directors and CIOs will start thinking twice about how the NT solution may jeopardize their jobs. Scale back of NT solutions means dropping revenue from lowered sales of NT (regardless of version 4 or 5). I will agree with you that NT will be the next desktop OS of choice. I will disagree with you that it has been and is the best desktop of choice. If market-share were not an issue and only technical superiority was, Apple's System 7 8 is far more workable (and has been for a long time) than WinXX or NT. MSFT is simply the most prevelant desktop OS because of shier market-share monopoly. Tell MSFT to feel free to use my posting anytime they wish - LOL!! Cheers RudeDog Toy

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