It was a decision by the parent company so to speak. They were sold by a good MSFT rep who also got them to purchase a site license on everything. Once the decision was made (by the CFO by the way, not IT) we were forced to proceed. The money was committed and we followed through. Needless to say, the decision was regretted within the year and some systems went back onto Novell (the critical ones).

Tracy

>>Hey I was sold a couple years ago when we switched to NT and 2000 on a lot of the systems and all of a sudden I was managing the servers all day and night. I had Novell servers that ran with no downtime for 6 years straight! No hacks, no security holes, and now with NT and 2000 it is a daily panic... There is something inherently wrong with a network OS that is 'open' by default out of the box instead of the reverse like Novell. Oh well, no one wants to hear that though... :o)
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>You say NT and W2K cost more than Novell, is less reliable than Novell, easily hacked and/or infected, and now requires daily maintenance, which has to be costly in terms of labor costs and downtime. Then what possessed you to switch? Why are you staying with the obviously poorer solution?
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>JLK