>I remember talking with one of the Program Managers for Win2K Server about the time it was released. He told me that when they tested NT, they would always shut the thing down at night...it was never tested over long periods. Stability was at the top of the list for Win2K, even if it meant sacrificing compatability. While Win2K is better than NT, it still has its problems in this area.

I remeber one of the early Windows 2000 sessions I went to from Microsoft. They played a video. The voiceover said "One Windows 2000 sever has been running 90 days without downtime". I remember chuckling to myself that we had two Novell servers that had been running for years.

The experience from the IT guys at my day job (10,000+ employees, 3000+ PCs), say that Novell and NT/2000 are both stable enough to stay running until the next service pack. At which point the server is restarted. In otherwords it is stable enough. Just as broadband internet is fast enough for the average user doing average things or digital cameras are high res enough...