> Microsoft is dropping support for NT server in January,
I have a hard time beliveing that. there's a huge market
pressure (from big time customers) to extend it. Also
you should mention what version you are talking about,
>From my understanding you're talking about NT 4.0. Now
the meinstream support for NT4 already ended last year,
while the extended lifecycle still goes thru 12/04, thus
not ending next January, but one year later.
And then there are the individual extensions done thereafter,
aka unofficial service packs.
If you are talking Win2K, then Mainstream is until 03/05,
and extended support until 03/07. After all, there's still
no XP Sever anounced, although, the mainstream support of
XP is ment to end already in 2006 !
> and what I am hearing from many sources is that ALL NT
> systems either go XP or out the door.
Nost machines now running NT4 are capable to do W2K without
any problem and no big difference in Performance (in fact,
in a lot of cases it may even perform better).
And last but not least, we are talking upscaled PCs here,
who realy wants to have them? Every new single CPU PC will
outperform them, and ecpt for windows there's no real OS
available. Naa, no geek value here. The only MS iniciated
date where interesting machines became obsolete was 2001,
when the Alpha Version of NT4 was finaly canned.
Gruss
H.
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