[THIN] Re: Microsoft Extends Olive Branch to Corporate Windows NT 4.0 Users

  • From: Dogers <dogers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:45:06 +0000

Heh, well, thats a dangerous approach :)
I know *I* certainly don't believe what vendors say anymore! Although
that said, the next version of NetWare is going to be linux based, so
LDAP should likely feature heavily. Should be an interesting release
that..

Andrew


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:18:21 -0500, Steve Raffensberger
<sraffens1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The company I just left has yet another tact. They have been told that the
> next version of NetWare will be LDAP compliant. Their plan is to do away
> with Microsoft domains entirely. They are hanging on to NT4 until their
> utopia arrives.
> 
> Raff
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Dogers
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:54 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Microsoft Extends Olive Branch to Corporate Windows
> NT 4.0 Users
> 
> For a lot of companies, NT4 was "Good Enough" :)
> 
> Big things Win2k brought - AD, USB and for TS, printing stability..
> (yes ok, theres lots of others, but realistically, what do smaller
> companies use?). The reason some companies are moving away is purely
> because its not being supported by MS or software companies anymore.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:41:19 -0700, Taylor, George <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why not just run Netware 3.11, it's about the same age, about as secure,
> > about the same functionality....or....welcome yourself into 2005 and run
> > a current OS.  NT4 is history, Micro$oft knows that, everyone else
> > should also....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dogers [mailto:dogers@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:14 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Microsoft Extends Olive Branch to Corporate Windows
> > NT 4.0 Users
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:14 -0000, Hutchinson, Alan
> > <alan.hutchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > From Silicon.com ....
> >
> > > "Everyone realises you have to keep moving [versions] and that means
> > hardware and software refreshes probably before it is necessary in
> > business terms."
> >
> > But why dont they DO something about it? :)
> >
> > > One option for customers is to look for custom support from a
> > Microsoft support partner. Gartner said that, for example, a hardware
> > manufacturer might be willing to discount aggressively if it can gain a
> > large competitive win or keep a competitor out.
> >
> > But how can they do that? Its all very well having support, but if they
> > cant fix the problems, whats the point? Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Andrew
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