Text 760, 34 rader
Skriven 2004-09-30 21:01:56 av Geo. (1:379/45)
    Kommentar till text 757 av Richard B. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: the future of software
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From: "Geo." <georger@nls.net>

"Richard B." <TDNBW@barktopus.com> wrote in message
news:ndmol0l8d70192hho9mco0ktge1ql9q4ud@4ax.com...

> >As long as I can find hardware that's supported I know I can keep it going
that
> >long.
>
> Now this I wanna see!

Well we started moving to NT in 1994 and I didn't upgrade those systems to W2K
till december 2000... and I didn't have to go to W2K, I could have easily
stayed with NT4 on the new hardware. The moving from NT 3.5 to 3.51 and finally
to 4.0 was required because it wasn't mature enough but now I've got a good
solid platform that does everything we need. I only went with W2K because we
were upgrading anyway and it got me a bunch more years of hardware support.

Let me put this another way so you get a better picture, we switched to NT back
in the Pentium 133/16mb days, and I'm still running NT4.0 on a couple of
2ghz/512mb machines today. I'm now 4 years into W2K so if I can get new
hardware 6 years from now that can still run W2K I should be able to hit the 15
year mark if I don't see a better choice. Course that's gonna be a stretch but
it's not out of the range of possible options at this point.

The real question is going to be can microsoft pull it's head out of it's ass
before then or am I going to have to do another major platform change like I
did in 1994. From what I've seen of Longhorn, the head ain't gonna be coming
out anytime soon..

Geo.

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