I think businesses are just being practical by not adopting each new release of software. Businesses do not want to risk having to lose business due to some instability and incompatability. At the advent of Win XP, people are probably just shifting from 98 and NT systems to 2000. I would think the probable reason for this is that by that time, 2000 has reached some maturity that many issues have been found and hopefully fixed. The compatibility of the software they use are going to surely work. People are probably on the verge of shifting to XP once Longhorn is released They would again, wait out for some couple or more years to see how Longhorn holds out for their business plan. I guess new software have their own surprises and the difficult part is that they are hard to anticipate.
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I think businesses are just being practical by not adopting each new release of software. Businesses do not want to risk having to lose business due to some instability and incompatability. At the advent of Win XP, people are probably just shifting from 98 and NT systems to 2000. I would think the probable reason for this is that by that time, 2000 has reached some maturity that many issues have been found and hopefully fixed. The compatibility of the software they use are going to surely work. People are probably on the verge of shifting to XP once Longhorn is released They would again, wait out for some couple or more years to see how Longhorn holds out for their business plan. I guess new software have their own surprises and the difficult part is that they are hard to anticipate.