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http://www.searchcio.com.au/news/article.asp?DocID=1284186&siteID=19

Most large enterprises will hold off on Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Server 2008 operating system, which is due out early next year, suggests a poll of data centre managers attending the Gartner Data Center Conference.

Gartner analyst John Enck polled audience members on their W2K8 deployment plans: 73% said they were either evaluating or had no current plans to deploy Windows Server 2008, 19% said they plan to introduce it on new servers, while 8% said they were planning an overall “forklift” upgrade. That’s consistent with Enck’s thinking about Microsoft Windows Server 2008, “If you’re on Windows Server 2003, eh, take your time.” he said.

Enck’s justification is that the new operating system is “not the life-altering, be-all, end-all change we’ve seen before.”

As with most things a lot of enterprises wont be switching their systems overnight. This is not necessarily a reflection on windows 2008, it takes time to get an enterprise standard build, to get the drivers/hardware tested, as well as justification for testing against Windows 2008 and upgrading to it. That said, it will be interesting to see if a lot of businesses use Windows 2008 as the business justification (unless their application demands it) to skip upgrading to Widows 2003 and go straight to 2008. We’ll see, it always takes time for testing to occur and for the individual applications to be optimized and ported to the new operating system.

I still look forward to Windows 2008, I’ve been reading about it and it certainly will be interesting to see what new features are included, the Core edition sounds very cool, and I wonder what the SAN/Clustering support will be like.

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