Server flood soon

I have a hard time beliveing that. there's a huge market pressure (from big time customers) to extend it. Also you should mention what version you are talking about, the meinstream support for NT4 already ended last year, while the extended lifecycle still goes thru 12/04, thus not ending next January, but one year later. And then there are the individual extensions done thereafter, aka unofficial service packs. If you are talking Win2K, then Mainstream is until 03/05, and extended support until 03/07. After all, there's still no XP Sever anounced, although, the mainstream support of XP is ment to end already in 2006 ! Nost machines now running NT4 are capable to do W2K without any problem and no big difference in Performance (in fact, in a lot of cases it may even perform better). And last but not least, we are talking upscaled PCs here, who realy wants to have them? Every new single CPU PC will outperform them, and ecpt for windows there's no real OS available. Naa, no geek value here. The only MS iniciated date where interesting machines became obsolete was 2001, when the Alpha Version of NT4 was finaly canned. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 5.0 am 01./02. Mai 2004 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/