Today at Networld+Interop (N+I) 2002, Bill Veghte, corporate vice president for the Windows® Server Group at Microsoft Corp., announced that Windows 2000 Server leads server market growth, fueled by enterprise customer adoption. Veghte highlighted the resounding success of customers and industry partners using Windows 2000 Server as an enterprise computing platform, noting that the Windows 2000 Server operating system has been the beneficiary of businesses’ movement away from UNIX, worldwide.1 “The economic slowdown is having a profound impact on IT spending. Given that, it’s great that all indications we have are that Windows 2000 Server adoption is still one of the highest priority items for enterprise customers,” Veghte said. “It’s clear that Windows is playing an increasing role in the enterprise server space.”

Technology analyst group International Data Corp. (IDC) said Microsoft’s installed base for the Windows 2000 operating system quadrupled in 2001 over 2000.2 “Microsoft’s operating environments’ new license shipments were one of the brighter stories in the computer industry for 2001,” said Al Gillen, research director, system software, IDC. “Looking forward, it is likely that Microsoft’s new license shipments will continue to serve as a benchmark for other products in the industry to aspire to.”3 Veghte also announced that Microsoft® Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.0 has been released to manufacturing and said the product will be available to customers early this summer. SFU 3.0 allows companies to more easily integrate Windows into existing UNIX environments, whether the goal is to improve system interoperability or facilitate the migration to a fully Windows-based network environment.