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To: Patrice Gigahurtz who wrote (6965)	12/23/1997 2:36:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213173

Patrice: Regarding System 8 crashes. As I said, we have too many machines to babysit and troubleshoot to deal with system 8 crashes especially since they do not follow the corporate infrastructure. I did a clean install on my machine and added the infrstructure componenets and the Applescripts. They're not made for System 8 and I just cannot afford to have my machine down (since all the NT emergency problems come in on a database on my Mac) for troubleshooting. I'll let the Infrastructure development team work out the kinks and when the time comes, they can make it part of the automatic upgrade. (Over 2000 machines upgrading to system 8 simultaneously at 4:30 on a Wednesday afternoon!---Not without problems in itself, but that's another story! --- Actually, that may be why we have not adopted system 8 for the Infrastructure. Since it requires reformatting and a clean install, we may never see System 8 over here. It's too man-power intensive.) NT is similar in the sense that it requires a clean install rather than an upgrade. For the small band of PC users, we can do that, or we leave them on Win 3.11. When the user gets a new machine, we remove the Win95 installed by the OEM and our Infrastructure Rollout team installs the NT Infrastructure. Afterward it gets upgraded in a similar fashion to the Macs. -Bill_H -Bill HooFatt