Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to put NT users on the upgrade path. Microsoft has admitted that customers keen to migrate from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 face a stumbling block in running SQL Server.
Despite the name, it's an upgrade to Windows NT. Professional is the upgrade to NT Workstation, is designed for desktops and notebooks and will retail at £260*. Users will also have to upgrade their virus protection software.
Now that Windows NT is clearly under challenge from Linux, Active Directory may never become the force that Novell was fearing," he said. UK telco, BT, will be rolling it out to more than 70,000 users, and ultimately intends to upgrade to NetWare 5.
Those who have deployed Windows 2000 spend as much time managing applications and software on their networks as they have when using Windows NT 4.0 for example - despite promises to the contrary from the software giant.
With the advent of NT people said, 'I'll buy the application first and then buy a Net server. Lan Manager (the precursor to Windows NT) was merely a NetWare copycat but Microsoft engineers were setting about creating a network operating system that...
A giant hairball.on Microsoft's Windows and Windows NT) • "General and motors.on Microsoft and Intel) The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you $249 for the right to speak it, and I could charge you an...