Dwight Davis
Dwight Davis
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It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.
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The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.
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This will not be a factor for Penn State medical students.
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Linux has been somewhat suspect in performance compared to NT 4.0, and if Windows 2000 raises the bar, it raises the bar above where Linux is competing. On the other hand, there's no stopping Linux being the key alternative to Windows 2000 for as far as we can see.
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It does a very hard thing: it makes Microsoft a sympathetic character.
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I think they're feeling pretty good about the state of the code at this point. They're probably building a bit of a buffer for themselves, given their inability to hit the dates in the past.
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Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.
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This is just one step closer to reality. Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).
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This is just one step closer to reality, ... Now they've taken it a step further by specifying the services they are going to offer. It's nice that it sort of puts meat on the bones for .NET, but it's still at the vaporware stage. The bulk of the suite is still far from beta (test version).
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Not just Microsoft but everybody has been trying to come up with new ways to increase their penetration into that smaller part of the market.
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The basic model of selling software as a hosted service has finally started to get some traction,
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SOAP created a common way for two different pieces of software to connect to each other. In the past, many applications were monolithic--made up of hundreds of thousands of lines of 'spaghetti' code. It was tough to modify any one piece without causing a ripple effect.
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They are on the cusp of bigger demand for Windows 2000, and actually now applications are rolling out that exploit Active Directory. They've gone through the Windows 2000 certification process -- I think 150 applications have gone through that, and 70 to 80 are server apps. The picture certainly is a lot more promising than it was a year ago.
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Even if an application isn't tuned and tweaked to take advantage of Windows 2000, it should in theory run faster on Windows 2000 and be more reliable on a more reliable platform. For a lot of companies, that'll be enough to swap out NT and go to Windows 2000.