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by mcse75

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Would anyone happen to know if Microsoft offers any type of competitor upgrade for Windows NT.

My organization has recently acquire another company who was using Novell, and we would like to move everyone to NT 4.0 and we were wondering if you can get licencing any cheaper if you upgrade from a competitors OS.

Thanks for your help!

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by ann777

They will not do "competitor" upgrades to an Operating System -- they will however give you free tools to help you migrate over to their OS. But you have to pay full price for their Windows licenses or CAL's.

by estebandelatorre

Sorry but there's no offer by the moment for the OS but you can have great benefits on the mail system. If the Organization is using Groupwise 5.5 or higer and you want to move to Exchange 2k, The offer here in Argentina is 50%

by ccsbz

not to kick a MCSE guy like myself!! but cheaper???. you are probably working with 3.12
this is good. and consider yourself lucky. Just a comment.

by joshg

Microsoft sold a competitive upgrade to NT 4. One of the products you could use was Novell. The stipulation was that you filled out a form that came in the COmp upgrade box that proved ownership of the competing OS.

We migrated out 8 novell boxes to NT 3 years ago using the comp upgrade software. My supplier has 24 copies of NT server 4 5-user comp upgrade for $380 right now. MS part number is 227-01229.

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