Once again "updating for the sake of updating" applies, sure there some genuine new stuff that offer something that is not just a fresh paint job. But can the same be said for the SERVER environment.
Since you mentioned mickysoft, allot of people are still running NT3.5 & NT4 on there OLD pentium platforms, as a server, and in same cases as a work station, and shock horror mickysoft still support them.
Oh Really? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx And reed the "see note" bit. Please stop with the unfounded guesswork.
Well, it is true for the end user, but I was talking about servers...
OK, if you want to take that approach... Name brand server hardware is supplied by most vendors with an expected lifetime of 3 years. Maybe 5 tops. After that, you expect a high level of hardware failures. From that angle alone, I'd not be bothering with old hardware in a server environment. Are you for real, or are you trolling? If the latter, please stop, or feel free to join #wlug, where we are eager and waiting to tear you a new one! :) -- Greig McGill