How old?
Peoples workplace IT systems...
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How old?
Caporegime
Our work machines have E8500s and 2GB RAM, but we run Windows 2000 on 70% of them, and XP on the remaining. Oh, and Office 2000 across the company!!
Thankfully Win7 and Office 2010 is on the horizon.
Thankfully Win7 and Office 2010 is on the horizon.
Man of Honour
What version of OS/400 are they running?
I was on my VCP course sat next to a fellow who came from a company with these exact credentials! I couldn't believe it really.
Soldato
Server 2003 DC's, users on a mix of XP, Vista, 7 with Office 2007/2010.
Not got that many staff here though, around 50-60 people all told.
Not got that many staff here though, around 50-60 people all told.
Associate
City of Bristol Colleges still use it.
Soldato
We used Novell up until a couple of years ago. I kind of miss it.
I'm rolling out a W7 build with Office 2010 via SCCM 2007 at the moment. Our servers will remain 2003 until later in the year though.
I'm rolling out a W7 build with Office 2010 via SCCM 2007 at the moment. Our servers will remain 2003 until later in the year though.
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Wow, I'm amazed at how much Netware is still out there!
I dont think there is any doubt that it's a dead end though.
In my own personal experience, Netware seemed to hang a lot for no reason.
In addition, one server with difficulites seemed to prevent the entire network from functioning properly.
I dont think there is any doubt that it's a dead end though.
In my own personal experience, Netware seemed to hang a lot for no reason.
In addition, one server with difficulites seemed to prevent the entire network from functioning properly.
Work's Network (IT Company)
3 Dell Servers running SBS2008 + 2x Server 2008
1 Built server running Server 2003
1 old IBM server running VMWare for testing
PCs are mainly 7.
Got companies ranging from SBS2000 to SBS2008 and everything in between. Win98 up to 7 on Client PCs. Pretty much covers every OS out there
3 Dell Servers running SBS2008 + 2x Server 2008
1 Built server running Server 2003
1 old IBM server running VMWare for testing
PCs are mainly 7.
Got companies ranging from SBS2000 to SBS2008 and everything in between. Win98 up to 7 on Client PCs. Pretty much covers every OS out there
The Novell Edirectory directory service is *still* more functional and feature rich than Microsoft Active Directory.
Netware is neither here nor there, and probably isn't why most of these large organisations stay with Novell. Edirectory will be the reason, or a product that uses Edirectory.
Netware is neither here nor there, and probably isn't why most of these large organisations stay with Novell. Edirectory will be the reason, or a product that uses Edirectory.
large organisations cant just move easily to new systems. in fact, once an organisation gets big enough, rollouts end up like the painting of the forth bridge. we're just tidying up the last win2k systems in our large multinational environment right now. The move to 2008/Windows 7 starts in 2 quarters....
Soldato
Work for a school, every single desktop running windows 7, all the servers are 2008R2 except the terminal servers which are 2008 and the ISA server which is still 2003R2. Apart from the ISA server there isn't a single server there i haven't setup myself 
Some teachers probably have the odd windows 2000 laptop they barely use, most laptops are windows XP and slowly being switched to windows 7 as and when they appear
Never used novell netware
Some teachers probably have the odd windows 2000 laptop they barely use, most laptops are windows XP and slowly being switched to windows 7 as and when they appear
Never used novell netware
Soldato
One of our biggest customers still use windows 3.1 and NT!
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Do MS still patch 98?! I loved that OS.
Soldato
Is it a bank by any chance?
Man of Honour
We used to have to support it for our customers. I even had to write some networking code specifically to work with it. No longer, on both counts. Thank goodness.
We still do get occasional enquiries about it though, and even may have recently got a call from them wanting to sell software to us.
PS - There's a few AS/400 machines lurking around our office too. As far as I know, we have no OS/400, or i5, or i, or whatever they want to call it this week.
We still do get occasional enquiries about it though, and even may have recently got a call from them wanting to sell software to us.
PS - There's a few AS/400 machines lurking around our office too. As far as I know, we have no OS/400, or i5, or i, or whatever they want to call it this week.