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To: ToySoldier who wrote (21794)	4/25/1998 10:57:00 PM
From: Emmo	Respond to of 42771

CONSULTANT opts for waiting for NT 6.0 APRIL 22, 1998 COMPUTERWORLD 04/20/98 P. 63,66 "Window NT 5.0 promises better management features and plug-and-play hardware installation on notebook PCs, but analysts said many companies might be better off skipping the first version of this upgrade, due out by early next year. 'My feeling is that by the time companies are done upgrading , they'll wish they'd done nothing,' said Ken Dulaney, an analyst at Gartner Group, Inc., a Stamford Conn.-based consultancy. 'Most users are going to waste a lot of money and get nowhere, and by the time they're done, Microsoft will be on NT 6.0.' To upgrade to Windows NT 5.0, Gartner recommends a minimum Pentium II notebook equipped with 64M bytes of RAM. But instead of pushing to NT 5.0 and investing a lot of money in new Pentium II PCs most companies should upgrade memory on their existing notebooks with lower-end processors and 'sit and wait,' Dulaney said.... 'We're not thinking about NT 5.0; until 2000, said the director of architecture and planning at a large Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical company, who asked to remain anonymous. 'We almost always wait until the bugs are fixed because it's such a pain.'" *******************