From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:39ai33dca8qmildo8rj3h5k76a4hi3vb7s{at}4ax.com...
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:39:57 -0400, mike  wrote:
>
>>Tech professionals at the businesses surveyed were asked the following
>>question: "When, if ever, does your company plan to purchase and install
>>Windows Vista?"
>
>  I was in "big corp" today and asked them about Vista /
platform upgrade
> plans.   Keep in mind that since Win3.1 days, these guys have been on a 3
> year lease / hardware / software upgrade cycle.   Something has changed,
> because they are nearing the end of the current 3 year cycle, but have not
> even announced plans for a software or hardware upgrade.    Based on their
> rollout / deployment planning lead process it will be another 2 years - so
> they have extended their lease cycle by 2 years.  On the one hand, I would
> think a 5 year lease would be crappy economics.  On the other hand, you
> eliminate the disruption of a deployment cycle with little payback, since
> most of the security improvements of Vista are obtained for them today on
> XP artificially through other policies / methods.
>
>   This is not surprising, since XP seems to fulfull their needs quite well
> for the foreseeable future.

Even those pro Vista have experienced roadblocks

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
http://www.optimizemag.com/square-off/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199100510&cid
=RSSfeed_OPT_News

As part of the original TAP agreement, we had hoped to deploy more Vista
desktops by now. However, we have encountered a few barriers, including:


a.. Application compatibility. Vista still doesn't support a significant
number of applications critical to UPMC's business, such as ambulatory
patient scheduling, single sign-on, and radiology imaging.


a.. Driver issues. Many hardware manufacturers haven't yet released drivers
that support Vista.


a.. Desktop hardware. To achieve acceptable performance, the desktop
requires more horsepower and memory than we currently have on the majority
of our deployed desktops. Most pilot-user desktops have at least a 3-GHz
processor hyperthreaded with 1 Gbtye of RAM. The standard desktops we're
ordering from our supplier, Lenovo, have a dual-core 2.13-GHz processor
with 1 Gbtye of RAM and 80-Gbtye SATA drives. These will operate with Vista
nicely.

Accelerating our rollout will require these three barriers to be addressed.
However, we have no doubt that these issues will be resolved imminently,
once the industry catches up with Vista's specifications and requirements.

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