From: "Geo." 

"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> >As long as I can find hardware that's supported I know I can keep it going
that
> >long.
>
> Now this I wanna see!

Well we started moving to NT in 1994 and I didn't upgrade those systems to
W2K till december 2000... and I didn't have to go to W2K, I could have
easily stayed with NT4 on the new hardware. The moving from NT 3.5 to 3.51
and finally to 4.0 was required because it wasn't mature enough but now
I've got a good solid platform that does everything we need. I only went
with W2K because we were upgrading anyway and it got me a bunch more years
of hardware support.

Let me put this another way so you get a better picture, we switched to NT
back in the Pentium 133/16mb days, and I'm still running NT4.0 on a couple
of 2ghz/512mb machines today. I'm now 4 years into W2K so if I can get new
hardware 6 years from now that can still run W2K I should be able to hit
the 15 year mark if I don't see a better choice. Course that's gonna be a
stretch but it's not out of the range of possible options at this point.

The real question is going to be can microsoft pull it's head out of it's
ass before then or am I going to have to do another major platform change
like I did in 1994. From what I've seen of Longhorn, the head ain't gonna
be coming out anytime soon..

Geo.

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