W2K Uptime

Hi,
I work for an organization in India, with around 1000 Win 2k Servers deployed in around 1000 offices with an average of 4 win 2k clients in each office. We have a specific insurance business application running on these (oracle 8i with d2k clients).

The offices are having LAN butWAN is in the planning stage. There is generallly no problem of uptime (except due to HW pbms). We have observed a very few crashes of Win 2k in the last one year. These were due to the poor anti virus policiesimplementd in the offices. Otherwise the servers are robust. Except for the typical oracle vs microsoft clashes, we faced very few pbms. The plan to connect all offices through leased line is in the offing. But the main scare is the virus. The Win platform is open to virus attack is the real scare for us. The firewalls do have their own problems and they clash sometimes with the business applications. But I would say Win 2k is great in a Lan environment, but WAN needs a more planned strategy.
thanx

karthik iyer