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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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As Longhorn looms, we examine Microsoft's track record in hitting product ship dates and offer advice for coping with the inevitable. A slip in the ship date for Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 rendered Chris Ferrari unable to hold up his end of a company-wide upgrade of some 55,000 desktops. A delay in the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) put Laura Hunter a year behind in rolling out SP2 to students at the University of Pennsylvania. And a change in the ship date for Microsoft CRM means Wesley Bielinski's Exchange environment doesn't have the redundancy he prefers. Three dedicated Microsoft customers with three stories following a similar theme: They got burned by Microsoft missing an announced product ship date. | ||
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| #1 By 13030 (198.22.121.120) at 3/2/2005 10:33:01 AM |
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Also, known as "LinuxIsTheft Math", a derivative of "Parkker Math".
Best quotes from story: "The result picturing isn't a pretty one. After tallying up all the numbers, we found that, on average, Microsoft ships its desktop OSes 10 months late while its server OSes are just over a year late. The track record for major, mold-breaking OSes, however, is much worse. Windows 95, for example, was 14 months late, while NT Server 4.0 was 21 months late—nearly two years." "If the Longhorn client is more consistent with Windows NT 4.0, he notes, then it may be delayed until 2007. And, if it's more consistent with Windows NT 5.0 (Cairo), which was abandoned and effectively replaced by Windows 2000, then it may be delayed until 2009." "[Windows database file system] ...this single unified database. And it was going to be a key component in Longhorn, but Microsoft is no longer promising that. That was the basis for doing Longhorn in the first place, so I don't know how the company justifies doing Longhorn now." Eye opener for the MS apologist gang here at ActiveWin. Welcome to reality guys... This post was edited by ch on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 at 10:39. |
| #2 By 1401 (69.40.51.202) at 3/2/2005 2:25:36 PM |
| Who are you calling a MS apologist, ch? |
| #3 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 3/3/2005 10:18:43 PM |
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#3, Exactly. I ask this of a lot of products..."Can I use it to solve my customers challenges?"
In the case of MS's platform, the answer is not only yes, but profitably yes - for ourselves and for the customer. *ISA 2004 is a great product - I've been working with ISA Enterprise and Standard for over four years and it is among the best products of its kind available - 2004 is very different, but also a better product. |
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