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To: Amy J who wrote (94657)	12/28/1999 8:31:00 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, RE: An IT person from one of the top datafarm co.s publicly said Win2000 has made significant improvements to the NT platform. The key question is: how much improvement and is it enough? He seemed to think it was a good, solid product. Check this out: zdnet.com Basically, the review says that most people should upgrade from NT 4.0 to Win2000 primarily due to Active Directory's enhancement of system management. Not too much is dedicated to the Linux et al vs Win200 contest, but I did take note of one of the comments by reviewer Pankaj Chowdhry: "There's no way Active Directory can compete with the pedigrees of Novell and Sun directory services." Seems like Sun will remain the most popular choice for the mission critical game in spite of Microsoft's marketing. Just from checking the anecdotal evidence from the people I speak with and reading stuff like the above, my guess is that Win2000 will stem some of the market share loss that NT 4.0 had been experiencing in the server area to the various Unix flavors, including Linux, but it won't take any share back.

To: Amy J who wrote (94657)	12/28/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: ericneu	Respond to of 186894

However, the Unix/Linux remote capabilities are (maybe now 'were'?) better, which is in part why some dotcoms use Sun, but does this change with Win2000? --- Absolutely. Windows 2000 has a number of improvements for remote management. One of the most notable is the addition of Terminal Services Remote Administration mode. In Windows 2000, TS is a component of the base operating system. When you enable TS, you're offered the choice of Application Server or Remote Admin mode. Remote Admin mode offers two simultaneous TS connections, and makes no changes to the normal operation of the server (like Application Server mode does). You can then connect from the following platforms: - WFW - Win9x - WinNT/Win2000 - WinCE (H/PC Pro platforms only) I've seen the Vadem Clio WinCE unit used for administration over a wireless LAN - it rocks! TS Remote Admin mode has a very small footprint - less than 2.5mb on the server. I expect many (most?) customers deploying Win2000 will enable TS/RA on every server. - Eric