From: Randall Parker 

Geo,

In what year will MS stop doing security patches for Win2k?

On that day you are going to be between a rock and a hard place. Have you
started planning your Linux migrations for then?

Geo. wrote:

>>You run XP on any servers? If not, why not?

>
> No. It's the licensing that's the problem.
>
> "Windows Server 2003 use rights are no longer triggered by Windows
> Authenticated Services or Windows Server Services.  Instead, the use or
> access by a user other than an anonymous Internet User OR other than the use
> of Windows solely as the platform of a server application will require the
> Windows (Authenticated) Processor License."
>
> so lets say I have a W2K web server with IIS, ASP,  and a third party FTP
> server running. I don't need CALs for each user who has a site on the server
> because I don't use the NT user database to authenticate anyone. With 2003,
> that's no longer true, because ftp users have a login they are not
> considered anonymouse internet users anymore.
>
> Got vasoline?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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