Al Gillen
Al Gillen
blocks large manage prepared question unix whether
Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.
fairly seemed
Vista seemed to be on schedule, so this was a fairly significant surprise.
microsoft practical taking viable
Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.
businesses including release small windows
Windows Vista is going to be a significant release for all Windows customers, including enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers.
latest movement operating proceed systems users
Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.
bug business concerns fairly happen meaningful microsoft proven users wait
Business users typically have concerns about a new Microsoft product, and that concern was proven to be fairly meaningful when that UPnP bug was revealed. They want to wait for those things to happen and get fixed.
customers good microsoft percentage policy setting small unhappy
It's a small percentage but nevertheless, for 15 percent of its customers to be unhappy with a policy Microsoft is setting is not a good sign.
kinds
Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.
attractive companies reason stay
A lot of companies need a reason to stay with NetWare. For the NetWare installed base, NetWare 5.1 is going to be a very attractive product.
absolutely cautious concerned customers deep enterprise operating performance rush software stack top unless
As usual, most enterprise customers will probably take a very cautious approach. Most won't rush in unless they absolutely have to for performance and scalability reasons, especially if it's a deep software stack on top of the operating system. They'll be too concerned about software incompatibilities.
million pcs per year
They do 150 million PCs per year it's like a rounding error.
bend convenient marketing meet open people
Open is one of those convenient marketing terms. People bend it to meet their needs.
active difficult extremely plans problem time
Plans to use Active Directory are extremely high. The problem is that actually doing that is still sometimes difficult and time consuming.
current customers easier less microsoft migration move onto required touch
For Microsoft to get customers to move onto the most current product, they have to make migration easier and have a lot less touch required on the part of IT managers.