Microsoft still offer paid support for NT. Must of the current NT installs I have seen are acting as NAS, DNS and in a few file / print servers. It is installed on Compaq or HP server platforms. At 13:43 6/04/2004, you wrote:
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.
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* DrWho? <x_files_(a)ihug.co.nz> [2004-04-06 03:37]:
It is also interesting to note that the latest RH and debian all do the same things as the older versions, but need twice or more the resources to do it...
I call bullshit. Can I see a list of your benchmark figures and the software vesions you used? Assuming sufficient RAM to run a recent kernel (and it ain't *that* much that you'll need) I'm pretty certain you can use a Pentium-100 to run a Debian intended for a headless machine running daemons only without much trouble.
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.
Are you kidding? When was the last time you saw a security bulletin for 3.5? I remember there was some security issue that affected NT4 as well as newer Windows version for which MS did not produce a fix for NT4. So all your claims notwithstanding, NT4 is pretty close to gone, as far as Microsoft is concerned. * DrWho? <x_files_(a)ihug.co.nz> [2004-04-06 04:08]:
Microsoft still offer paid support for NT.
All publicly citeable sources prove the opposite. I will assume you're just blathering about until proven otherwise. -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
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