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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pgerassi who wrote (108949)	5/1/2000 8:54:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

Pete, OT I understand some of your frustration. My was very suspicious about going to Windows 95/98 in our company based on my personal experience with these products, and most of my worries have proven to be correct. I don't think the platform is stable enough for business use, but people struggled through it. We were forced to do it because we need to use software that's available only in Windows. We switched to NT, and we noticed a great improvement in stability. Crashes of the OS disappeared. Even crashes of the applications went down substantially. I personally have worked on NT. I do software development, connected to NT network, Unix boxes, never turned off the computer at nights / weekends, and I don't recall the machine ever crashing on me. (This was on about a 4 month project). So far I have found Win 2000 Pro very stable (I am still on beta), and Win 2000 server (GA) as well, but so far the server has been under a light load. I never had to restart it. Although I have never experienced any of the problems importing spreadsheets themselves from one version of Excel to newer, or from Lotus, I have seen problems in VBA code, that accesses the old object hierarchy. But as far as retyping stuff, there is always a better way than retyping stuff. If the users refuse to use their brains, their managers should force them to. All the while, the tasks must be done. I have seen this time and time again with Microsoft. It causes so much lost time and productivity, that many businesses wait 1 to 2 years before changing to find all the "Land Mines" before converting. I guess the moral of the story is that you have to evaluate the technology you are moving to before you jump. You can't do it perfectly, but you should be able to spot the major land mines. The reality is that Windows is the main OS used in business. Most businesses fought and won a lot of battles to make it work for them. Although some will experiment with Linux, I don't think the business has an appetite for fighting the same battles on Linux platform that have been won already on the Windows platform. Joe