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A recent survey on theITportal found that a third of organisations are still relying on Windows NT Server (NT4) as their primary operating system. With life support for NT4 ending this year, and with many of these businesses still undecided on their upgrade path, we look at the business case for moving to Windows Server 2003.Throughout December and January theITportal ran a survey looking at your attitudes to your current Windows server operating system and your views on Windows Server 2003.
As expected, Windows NT Server (NT4) machines still retain an important role in a significant number of your businesses. For a third of respondents, NT4 remains the primary operating system, whilst two thirds still have NT4 machines hidden somewhere in the dimly lit corners of their organisation.
This poses Microsoft with somewhat of a problem. Just like any company, Microsoft will only support a product for so long and the life support for NT4 will run out at the end of this year. Microsoft wants NT4 users to move to a newer Microsoft platform but some organisations are proving surprisingly reluctant.
Our survey found that despite the impending support deadline, over a third had ruled out, or were still undecided on, moving to a newer Microsoft platform. Running unsupported software is not without significant risks so what is fuelling this reluctance?
The obvious answer would be to blame the attraction of various “free” flavours of Linux, and whilst 13 per cent of NT4 users cited the lure of open source as a serious barrier to adopting a newer Windows platform survey, there are currently other more pressing concerns.
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