Skippy's project <OT>

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

At 11:14 PM 5/28/02 -0500, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
>W98 acts perfectly with a raid controller card. In fact, W98 is the
>reason billy is forcing XP. The upgrade numbers have not been good
>since W98 was released. W98 will be around for a long time. billy
>boo-boo'd and made a windows version that was fairly stable,(for
>windows).

My understanding and comment was (from using Win 95 and DOS) that Windows 
98 and ME would work transparently with a RAID controller card.  Linux, and 
the NT family (including both versions of XP) need their own drivers for 
RAID cards, and even basic IDE or SCSI.  Yes, Win 98 will be around a long 
time, as will Windows 2000--look how many people are even still using Win 
95 or NT.  But if it isn't supported by the manufacturer, that in itself is 
pressure to upgrade.

>My back office came with NT4. Suppose it can be had with or without.
>It is optimized for NT/2000. I suppost W98 could run some of the
>backoffice apps but probably not all.

If Back Office works on Win 98, or even WinNT WS/ Win2000 Pro that makes it 
an (expensive) option.  Without it, SQL Server is like MySQL or 
Sybase--someone would have to quickly become a lot more of a database 
expert than it sounds like they are.



Stuart Biggerstaff

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