From: Tim Boyer 

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:13:40 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"mike"  wrote in message
>news:gshfp2t4hp4b38sd8eijl07kb02vsujfrk{at}4ax.com...
>
>> For a while.  At some point it will become like NT, a quality OS that
>> Microsoft has left behind.
>
>For a bunch of machines on an internal network with very limited outside
>access there is no left behind by Microsoft. The only people who can leave
>it behind are the guys writing hardware drivers.
>
>But yeah I get your point. Fortunately for me at this point in time Linux is
>a quite viable choice for these machines, and to top it off both the OS and
>apps I need for 95% of our internal desktops are completely free so it will
>cost me nothing but a bit of effort to give it a go. I have 3 machines that
>have to stay with windows because of autocad and pagemaker other than that I
>could put in whatever I want (and I will not be moving to XP once I can't
>get W2K drivers so it's either Vista or Linux at this point).
>

My experiment for this year is to see if I can get 2K working under Xen. 
If I can, then I suspect I'll be good for a long time.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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