MS Windows 2000 - intre MIT si Realitate

[mdan]

Agencies that have a "hard requirement" for C2 security will have to wait two or more years before adopting Microsoft Windows 2000, says James Arnold, technical director of Science Applications International Corp.'s Trusted Technology Assessment Program laboratory. Arnold's TTAP team in Columbia, Md., last month announced the C2 certification of amended versions of the 4-year-old Windows NT 4.0 Server and Workstation operating systems under the National Security Agency's Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria. Arnold said agencies' existing installations of NT 4.0 Server and Workstation must have NT Service Pack 6 and several hot fixes installed to qualify at the C2 security level.


[This message has been edited by mdan (edited 05 April 2000).]

[LuckyOne]

aha, dar versiunea ta de miine cind va fi adoptata?

[mdan]

Myth:
First corporations, then home users will install Windows 2000 as fast as possible. Fact:
The adoption rate for Windows 2000 will be perhaps the slowest in Microsoft history-certainly much slower than that of Windows 95 or Windows 98. Windows 2000 is much more like the new
Windows NT of 1993. It's different, and people will do careful evaluations for some months, and maybe years, before installing it.

Myth:
Moving from Windows NT to Windows 2000 will solve major reliability problems with NT.
Reality:
If you've been using NT for some time and are up-to-date with service pack installations, your environment is probably pretty stable. Moving to Windows 2000 for stability alone is not the no-brainer it would seem, even if you believe the benchmark results Microsoft is touting that show Windows 2000 some 20 times more stable than NT 4.0.

Myth:
Windows 2000 enables e-business as no other product can. Fact: There's plenty of e-business going on now and almost none of it is running on Windows 2000. And the most innovative technologies in Win2K have almost nothing to do with e-commerce. Directory services technology, embodied in Active Directory, is great for easing administration in a client/server environment.

Such a deal

Myth:
Big users, including many highlighted at the announcement, such as General Motors, are adopting the OS en masse because of the obvious benefits, ranging from e-business enablement to lower total cost of ownership.
Fact:
The early adopters are participating in a joint promotional activity with Microsoft. This is very different from a sale to an IT shop, the kind that perhaps you are contemplating. The early adopters are subsidized heavily by Microsoft, especially in training and support. In return, they offer testimonials.

Myth:
The TPC-C benchmarks announced at the rollout prove Microsoft is now the high-end database transaction leader.
Fact:
The benchmarks were performed on Windows 2000
DataCenter and SQL Server 2000, neither of which was being announced at the rollout. By the time they're available, competitors such as Oracle can do their own benchmark black magic and come up with figures that make Microsoft look bad.

Myth:
All of the above means that Windows 2000 is a colossal fraud that should not be installed.
Fact:
Windows 2000 is the crowning achievement of a business model launched 20 years ago.
That model consists of selling a proprietary yet de facto standard operating system that can run on compatible hardware from any number of vendors. It's high-volume software on high-volume hardware and, over the years, that model has produced a very compelling value proposition for huge numbers of customers of every size and in every industry. Expect the same from Windows 2000.

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