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| Monday, July 12, 2004 |
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Apple targets Microsoft NT4 users
Why not ride a Tiger
By Nick Farrell: Monday 12 July 2004, 08:14
APPLE'S MARKETING machine has decided to target NT4 users who didn’t upgrade and those who are miffed at Microsoft for not letting Longhorn out to play for a long time.
Microsoft wants to phase out NT Server 4 at the end of the year and Apple PRs have announced that the firm is releasing an NT migration tool as part of the Mac OS X Server 10.4 Tiger release.
Built into the server OS, the tool also will enable users to migrate from Windows Server 2000 to Tiger, if they were so minded to do so.
Windows Watch quoted Tom Goguen, Apple's director of server software as saying that the company did not believe that many of Microsoft’s NT4 users were ready for Windows 2003. Many are spurning active directory as if it were a rabid dog.
Instead they are hoping that such users will be drawn to Apple’s plain-vanilla Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory as an alternative.
The downside is of course that for Apple to actually woo such customers from The Vole, it will have to drop the price and the product will not be the very beautiful but reassuringly expensive product its users currently know and love.
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| posted by Perimbean @ 10:21 PM |
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