Livingston on deploying XP- Fahgeddaboudit

Post #12,244 by Silverlock 10/8/01 12:37:32 PM Reply	Livingston on deploying XP- Fahgeddaboudit My occasional foray back to the Infoworld opinions page sometimes bears fruit. -quote After looking at the changes Microsoft has made in its forthcoming Windows XP, I'm recommending that most companies and individuals avoid it. I won't be adding to my line of books a Windows XP Secrets (although someone else will inevitably write a work with that title, and if it's good I'll recommend it). Instead, I'm planning to keep Windows 2000 running on my office network indefinitely. -endquote This may signal the death knell for MS's XP plans. Livingstone is one guy that is followed by many of those who hold the purse strings for IT purchases. Couple this with the Gartner advisory to re-evaluate IIS, and the awareness seeping thru the boardrooms of the corporate world that sticking with MS volume agreements is going to cost a lot more, and I see a big shift in IT purchasing around the corner. Is anyone in the business world not aware of Linux and other open source offerings? [link\|http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml\|[link\|http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml\|http://www.infoworl...vingston.xml]] For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw
Post #12,259 by addison 10/8/01 1:16:40 PM Reply	He'll move, unless he dumps Windows. Just like Microsoft is trying to pull the rug out from under NT 4 now. Peter doesn't like to hear it, but shops like ours, aren't moving soon, especially on the backend. 2000 just got approved for desktop use, its probably a year from being cleared for server use. Every place I used to work for who's got a huge NT backend are telling me similar stories, they can't afford to go to 2000, the time, the planning, the everything. And now Microsoft is yanking the rug, hard as they can. Reportedly, they've stopped packaging fixes into Service Packs (going so far as to not release one they'd already prepared), etc. (Which ... will cause it to be even harder to keep the NT machines patched, and so they'll take more and more hits on security). And in a year's time, you'll see the exact same sorts of things for 2000 that you're seeing for NT now. They've got to keep the cash flowing in, they've got to have the upgrades. 2000 will be a very limited life product. XP has all the hooks they need for the NEXT monopoly - they need you to run it. So he can try and stay back on 2000... but [barring court intervention/divine intervention/transplanting of decency and common sense into M$ execs], he'll be having to move in a year, maybe a tad bit more. Wonder if he'll write the book then. :) Addison
Post #12,270 by jb4 10/8/01 1:53:37 PM Reply	W O W !!! Coming from any of us, that column would be damning enough. Coming from him, it is just about apocalyptic! But, I'll say this for him...He got a set! jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)

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