“…Big Blue repeated concerns to it had with certain
elements of Win2000, most notably Active Directory, the operating
system’s network management tool.”
“Adam Jollans, marketing manager for IBM’s Windows NT Software,
said the problem is that while Win2000 works very well with
Win2000, it works somewhat less well in a cross-platform
environment, and as the vast majority of IBM’s customers work in
mixed environments, it is an important issue. ‘It continually comes
back to heterogeneous versus homogenous,’ he said.”
” ‘It’s a strong operating system, but it has added some things
that other operating systems have had for a long time,’ he said,
noting that the multiclustering available on Windows 2000 is an
area where Unix excels already. ‘It can’t replace Unix; it can’t
replace mainframes,’ he said.”
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