Server flood soon

From: Rob O'Donnell <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu Nov 13 07:26:29 2003

At 23:11 13/11/2003 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Ford" <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:30 PM
>Subject: Server flood soon
>
>
> > and what I am
> > hearing from many sources is that ALL NT systems either go XP or out the
>door.
>
>Seems unlikely. I'd say plenty will hang around for some time yet.
>Particularly in
>small business.
>I'm sure Bill would like to see everyone immediately dump all their NT4
>boxes for
>XP Server and Intel would be overjoyed at a rush of buyers for new servers
>capable
>of handling the XP Server bloatware. Doesn't mean it will happen in a hurry
>though...

As a techie responsible for supporting a number of small businesses, I can
confirm this - while we have a few who run fairly recent versions of
Windows Server on modern kit, I can count at least as many whose entire
business still runs off machines which are almost on topic for this
list. Certainly we've lots of NT4 Server systems out there, some even
running on P1 boxes.

Is not long ago (like few months) we upgraded a 24 user (serial screens)
system because the MFM hard disc in the 386 based server had finally died...



>Upside is some very nice home server systems might pop up on the surplus
>market
>as the well off corporate Lemmings race to obey the will of the Dark
>Lord....
>
>Geoff in Oz
Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 07:26:29 GMT