Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 22, 2004 11:48 PM
1. What will be the real impact of Loghorn? 2. What upgrades will we need to hardware to run it? 3. How much will it cost to retrain administration staff? 4. How secure will it really be? Especially, if Microsoft are the main party offering both operation system security and virus-checking software? They don't exactly have a good track record for either of these, and now they have a bundling vested interest. 5. Will cross-application scripting i.e. VB be as lethal as with current versions of Windows? 6. Do you really want to be on the bleeding edge? 7. Where is the centralised control and management? How well will Longhorn work with products such as Citrix? 8. Why should you want to install thick-clients, when thin clients are now beginning to show best ROI and lowest TCO? 9. How much is really going to cost to stay with Windows? 10. What facility or innovations does Windows provide that cannot be readily delivered by other platforms?
OK. So if you went to the Microsoft briefing did you get the answers to all these questions? Did you even bother to ask?
If not how can you ever be able to assess TCO versus any other platform?
But all this is actually irrelevent to IT management. The only important task is delivering the IT systems your business needs.
So why did you waste time attending the Microsoft event - you knew it wouldn't deliver business solutions?
You would have better spent your time reviewing open source application solutions on the internet.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 22, 2004 11:48 PM2. What upgrades will we need to hardware to run it?
3. How much will it cost to retrain administration staff?
4. How secure will it really be? Especially, if Microsoft are the main party offering both operation system security and virus-checking software? They don't exactly have a good track record for either of these, and now they have a bundling vested interest.
5. Will cross-application scripting i.e. VB be as lethal as with current versions of Windows?
6. Do you really want to be on the bleeding edge?
7. Where is the centralised control and management? How well will Longhorn work with products such as Citrix?
8. Why should you want to install thick-clients, when thin clients are now beginning to show best ROI and lowest TCO?
9. How much is really going to cost to stay with Windows?
10. What facility or innovations does Windows provide that cannot be readily delivered by other platforms?
OK. So if you went to the Microsoft briefing did you get the answers to all these questions? Did you even bother to ask?
If not how can you ever be able to assess TCO versus any other platform?
But all this is actually irrelevent to IT management. The only important task is delivering the IT systems your business needs.
So why did you waste time attending the Microsoft event - you knew it wouldn't deliver business solutions?
You would have better spent your time reviewing open source application solutions on the internet.
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