Enlisting high-end help for NT news.com
On the subject of marketing hype, Mr. Krnjeu, I can't resist posting this late breaking news on NT2K, the OS for the Next Millennium.
Microsoft executives all but admitted today that if its Windows NT Server operating system is ever to gain the features that will make it an attractive alternative to proven high-end software, it's going to need some help.
But how can this be? Innovative Microsoft, with all the money in the world, all the software hotshots in the world, Cutler's 5000-strong NT army, and brilliant but politically naive software engineer Bill at the helm, needs help? In its supposed core competency? Strange days, I say.
No timetable for delivery of the technology was given, though Paul Maritz, group vice president for Microsoft, said the high-end software enhancements would begin to appear in post-NT 5.0 releases. The NT 5.0 operating system itself is fraught with uncertainty at this point, with some believing the upgrade will be delivered as late as the year 2000.
"We won't get there tomorrow, but this puts a stake in the ground," admitted Maritz, alluding to the incorporation of the high-end Compaq technology.
That would be Paul "Air Supply" Maritz. I'm sure Compaq will be paid handsomely for this. Probably Microsoft gets it all for "past considerations", part of reparations extracted following ignominious defeat for Compaq in the sacred icon war.
Cheers, Dan. |
