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Changes to Microsoft Licensing

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by dhony

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I'm currently reviewing our current arrangements re Microsoft licensing, and I'm interested to know what other companies are doing about the software assurance changes they are implementing. We have 500 seats, and have recently upgraded our desktopsto W2K, though the servers are still NT. I reckon we won't be changing the pc's for at leasdt 3 years but the servers are more likely candidates. What's anyone else doing out there????

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by bklein

But I would go with Linux all around. A solid Red Hat distro on the server(s) and maybe Mandrake (8.1) on the desktops.

The downside is users haveing to learn new software. The upside is, this will allow you and your peers to focus more on process improvement rather than herding cats.

by lordinfidel

If you want to know my feelings, just look at my M$ Audit post.

Basically it is way for them to get more cash.

I say win2k/nt4/98se is good enough for the business class users. They both work fine in the corparate enviroment.

There is little to no benefit to switching over to xp. You may want 1 box around to do testing on if your company develops software. But that's about it.

No need to burden yourself with another OS and then do upgrades on all of the machines, just to have thelatest and greatest.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I have already mandated on my network tha XP or ME will not be installed or purchased.

I will wait until 2K runs it's course technology wise and there is a major advancement in the OS architecture that will direclty benefit the corporate end user.

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