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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (4743)	3/17/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

John: You are so on the money. I spent ten years of my career in the IT department of a major multinational service firm. Any sort of rollout is painful - an unstable operating system is an unheard of problem. <<People don't realize that you don't just upgrade an operating system over night for such an amount of workstations; even upgrading to the next Service Pack version requires some detailed planning and preparation testing; especially with all the inhouse developed software>> The savvy operations people may not understand just what is wrong with NT 4.0, but many are quietly moving whatever can be moved to Linux or IBM AS/400 or something more stable. I also expect that third party software companies who are caught in this mess because Microsoft did not take Y2K seriously will be less likely to be loyal to the Windows platform in the future. I expect that one of the effects of Y2K will be that big companies will realize the value of stability and quality in software. Don't know where that will leave Microsoft. But I think that it eventually helps the SAPs and Peoplesofts of the world. And last time I looked, everyone who makes application software was porting it to Linux. Christine