[Sheflug] Re: win2000?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    >> Dont get me wrong i prefer Linux and have nothing but problems
    >> with NT at work and win2000 at home since i left uni but alot
    >> of my freinds at uni a going on about how great win2000 is and
    >> how datacentre will revolutionise the enterprise

    Richard> This is an MS brain washing method.

Yup.  And after the revolution, MSFT will own your company.

Seriously, I doubt any single IT product can "revolutionize the
enterprise."  Enterprises are basically people.  What will happen is
that a few people will find ways to make a lot of money with
Datacenter, then others will find way to abstract those methods into
better cheaper products and get them into more enterprises.  That will
be the revolution, and maybe Datacenter will deserve more or less
credit.

But there will always be a market for thinking smarter.  Eg,

http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

was a real eye-opener for me.  Get the organization right, and a small
cheap IT system can do the work of a much bigger more expensive
system, and probably faster.  MSFT won't tell you that, though,
although SAP or BAAN might.

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