From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.trlijdmzm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...

> I suspect that there are other factors at play.  I have never seen one of
> the corp licenses that MS signs with large organizations but I expect that
> there is some factor that encourages both upgrades and homogeneous
> environments.

If I wasn't planning to be in this job in 4 years I might sign one of those
but I don't understand how anyone with a long term view could get suckered
into renting software.

> But as for the rest of your comment ... the NT4 example is somewhat
> specious since, as you pointed out elsewhere, it suffers from at least one
> serious exploit that won't be patched.

I don't patch machines on the internal network, there is no need. On a
secure internal network you can run unpatched forever. My comments in the
other thread was in the use of NT4 where it would be exposed to the
internet.

> Another area in which I have no experience:  if you buy new hardware, how
> likely is it that you'll get a driver that provides anything other than a
> vanilla set of functionality for the new device?

I have lots of new hardware running W2K. If I were putting NT4 on it I
would just be a little more picky about the hardware and find something
that had NT4 drivers, there are still lots of stuff where they are
available. It talks years to lose support for a popular OS like any version
of windows.

Geo.

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