Roll out... Windows 2000 Professional
By Mauricio Freitas, in
Windows, posted: 23-Mar-2007 18:14
Yes, I know... After working sixteen years for a system integrator I understand the cost of large projects, and I understand that rolling out Microsoft Windows Vista in a large organisation is no easy task.
But still, I was surprised today when I stopped at my local mall's McDonalds to get a coke (regular, no ice please, but who cares? Not the cashier, who sometimes brings with ice anyway) and noticed that, at last, they have replaced the PC running Windows 95 with a new Dell machine running Windows XP.
Then, walking back to the carpark I've noticed through a window that the local ANZ branch is still running Windows 2000 Professional on their desktops.
The large projects are getting even larger as time goes by...
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But still, I was surprised today when I stopped at my local mall's McDonalds to get a coke (regular, no ice please, but who cares? Not the cashier, who sometimes brings with ice anyway) and noticed that, at last, they have replaced the PC running Windows 95 with a new Dell machine running Windows XP.
Then, walking back to the carpark I've noticed through a window that the local ANZ branch is still running Windows 2000 Professional on their desktops.
The large projects are getting even larger as time goes by...
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Comment by lugh, on 23-Mar-2007 18:38
I can say that we do have a project to migrate both ANZ and National Bank branches to XP. This migration is an absolute mission as our build image has to conform with our international group standards (i.e. Australia, Bangalore, etc.) and we have a lot of custom-built legacy applications that need reconfiguring (or in a few cases, near-total rebuilds).
To show the scale of the job, the entire back office was migrated to XP and that took a period of roughly 18 months. And this still isn't perfect as some apps haven't been packaged and we're have to do workarounds in the Oracle team where I work.
Still Win2K isn't bad... 6 months ago, I was still using WinNT... in IT! (shudder!)