On Saturday 10 May 2003 03:56, James PEARSON wrote:
Here's another side of the story...
Is Redmond sucking wind with MS Server 2003? No apps, so lots of power Friday 02 May 2003, 09:45
MOST REPORTS on Server 2003 have been in the neutral to cautiously optimistic range, as the IT realm hunted around for reasons why someone might actually want to deploy it. According to Steven Vaughan-Nichols from Practical Technology, however, there's more than a little water in Redmond's gas tank with this latest release.
"The price a corporation's paid for that is going to vary depending on their setup, of course, but the "Standard" edition costs $7000 per CPU. And guess what? Your $7000 per CPU investment is broken if you upgrade to Microsoft's latest and greatest. So if you deployed BizTalk on five systems you just dropped $35,000 for less than a year of functionality (BizTalk Standard was released in mid-June of last year)." This is the kind of mindless crap that M$ is doing to kill their own business. I mean what morons are going to fork out this kinda cash, especially in this economic climate, for these morons that are trying to sell this crap! Seems someone at M$ is living in La La Land. I mean their pumping out backwardsly incompatibile software, with no peripheral or ancillary program support at fairly heavy prices evey 12 to 18 months. I don't think these guys get it. Seriously, I guess because Bill and Steve are some of the richest guys around they think that everyone else can just kick out a few $100k every year on IT spending just because M$ rolls out a new product. Consider the expense to a small to mid-size business. What response do you think most IT division heads will get from their bosses if they propose spending more of their budget upgrading to WS2k3 and then justifying upgrading the newer software in order to maintian compaitiblity and functionality? Not to mention that some of your software/programs may not even have a version that's compatible with WS2k3! Is it me or does M$ seem to be getting dumber by the minute? Hmmmm! Since they can't blatantly bully business and partners into doing things they way they want they now have to actually have a business strategy and product line. They don't seem to be doing that very well IMHO. Cheers, Curtis.