From: "Robert Comer" 

> Any future plans to upgrade? Or planning a change of platform?

The NT4 domain is getting a bit long in the tooth, the custom programming
on it that is, and it never really worked as well as we would have hoped
anyway.  I'm working on converting the code to use a newer version of SQL
Server, but I seriously doubt I'll upgrade the OS too, there's no reason I
can see. I could only go to W2K as WinXP crippled support for Netbeui to
the point that one of our apps cannot run in XP. (It uses NetDDE over
Netbeui.) I hope to get that app replaced by something better as well, but
that'll be an outsourced thing.

If I were going to set up a new file/print server, I'd probably be looking
at Linux or FreeBSD, but those tasks are being handled adequately by the
400, a Snap! server, and Lexmark print servers, so I'm not looking for
anything that way, though I may do a bit more of both with my W2K domain in
the future.  All my W2K domain does is domain authentication / password
synchronization with the AS/400, and it runs the PC backup software.

- Bob Comer

p.s. that was clear as mud to me, so I can imagine it probably doesn't make
sense to anyone else.   So to answer your question, no, no
platform changes though there are some backend sw changes hopefully.



"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:f8c89vsm5341elf55u3kv07cc07pivc077{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:52:57 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >As to why I set up a W2K one -- the hardware I had required it, otherwise
> >I'd have gone NT4.
>
> Any future plans to upgrade? Or planning a change of platform?
>
> - Richard

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