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1. Comment - Businesses Slow to Adopt XP SP2

   (Apr 7, 2005 - 11:17 PM)

   I work for a stuart-up company that's been in business for 4 years and have recently started to take off. In the past year we've hired aprox. 80 emplyees and 60 contractors, all with new IBM laptops. We have an accounting group, Felid Tech group, Network operations, financial, HR, Engineering, Engineering Ops, Production, Marketing.....they all use different software. In some cases we have to pay to upgrade all the software...just for SP2 compliance. The product isn't necessarily end of life, or even close to it, but it's not SP2 compliant. In other cases we have software that was born antiquated, it's good at what it does and it's continually being improved but requires an older version of Crystal reports to function. We use v.9 for most reporting functions in the company, this app uses v.8 and we have to upgrade to v.10 for SP2. Oh, and get this, we use MS Business Solutions Great Plains in our accouting dept. relatively new software, but are forced to use Adobe Acrobat v.4 just to write to PDF files, hows that for lame. I'm one of 2 people in IT, we have to support 200 users, continually provide increased levels of security, collaberation tools, deploy new field offices to support the company's growth. 200 users isnt alot for two people, in fact it's fast paced comfortable, but taking the time out for testing and time to become upgrade compliant as well as the cost of software and time. And, to top it off, the only problem we have with SP2 is the crappy IE6 update in SP2. Or of course we could spend the tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade server software and hundreds of man hours fixing out intranet, which our whole company functions around, just to continue to get updates, which we cant guarantee wont cause more problems down the road......