Yep. While we're Win2000 free, and have been for years, we are about 50% win7 and 50% winxp on the windows front. I'm certainly hoping to get rid of XP completely as staff computers are updated over the next year.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:57:09AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 11/22/2010 9:24 AM, Phillip Moore wrote: > > > > I would think for any closed operating system platform, that we should > > drop support in sync with the vendor. If Microsoft has stopped > > supporting W2K, then this seems like a no-brainer to me. So do we. > > For open source operating systems, then the same thing applies, > > assuming there's a governing body or community for that particular OS. > > > > Perhaps this is really a question that should be address by the OpenAFS > > elders? ( I miss you guys... :-P ) > > > > If we don't have a clear policy on determining when to drop a platform, > > it costs us dearly, as supporting these "dead" platforms prevents us > > from modernizing the environment like this. > > The purpose of this e-mail is fact finding. Last time I asked the > question there were still a considerable number of sites that were using > win2000 and winxp that were holding off upgrades until their win7 > strategy was in place. One of the challenges for these sites in > upgrading is the lack of a trouble-free win7 client for openafs. > The redirector releases (1.8) are not going to support Windows 2000. > That has been stated in the past. The question is whether killing off > support for Win2000 in 1.6 will be too painful. > > Jeffrey Altman > -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing bot...@cnf.cornell.edu ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info