InfoWorld: The Win2000 decision: Upgrading to the OS is a philosophical and an economic conundrum

“This month IT will witness the release of the mother of all
operating system in terms of size with the formal unveiling of
Windows 2000, and the question that will be uppermost in the minds
of most IT executives will be when they should deploy this
release.

You’ll note that the primary question is when, not if. Although
many folks are evaluating Linux or have some level of commitment to
Unix in their data centers, the fact is that just about every
organization is running some variant of Windows. And the other
inescapable truth is that it’s costing those organizations a lot of
money to do so.”

“When you do the numbers, most IT organizations running
Windows NT today are between a rock and hard place when it comes to
deploying Windows 2000. You can either leap now in the hopes
of lowering the soft costs associated with the platform, not to
mention the personal time you might regain by not having to reboot
the operating system once a day. Or you can continue to run Windows
NT under the assumption that the devil you know is better than the
one you don’t.

On the client side of the equation… although Win9x isn’t a lot
of fun to support everyday, the reality is you are going to be
stuck with it until you can buy enough new Pentium III-class
hardware to support it [Windows 2000].”

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