From: Mike N. 



>Did you know all of netlink's dns servers are NT4? Did you know one of my
>web servers is IIS3?

    It does depend entirely upon how complex the services you are using or
offering are.   I'm willing to bet that the IIS3 machine does not host web
sites for your customers and is configured as a 'four-banger calculator' ;
no active content which makes it secure and long-lived after a few
modifications.  If you host .NET web sites for your customers, it becomes
much more difficult to secure for the long term because the interaction
with a .NET server is harder to monitor and patch for security issues for
example.

>anymore. I'll move from NT4 and W2K to whatever is better when *I* decide
>something is better not when Microsoft says it's time to move.

  That's a good position to be in; most people cannot invest the time to
plan and evaluate their options and just pursue the path of least
resistance.  They may well wake up some morning with their nuts in a vice.

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