I plan to switch NetWare to the test network and replace it with FreeBSD on the production side. I'll tell you why. Besides my buddy Mary Jo Foley's 63,000 buggy reasons , W2K just eats up too many resources. Now, just like you, I want screaming quad-Xeons on every desktop. But the simple truth is that I can't afford to replace my desktop machines, even at today's prices.
Few companies can.
Only my top machines are real-world W2K suitable. Even the one W2K low-end box, a 266MHz system with its 128MBs of RAM, is slow as sewage sludge on a frosty morning with the W2K Professional. In all fairness, it is better than Windows 95 and 98, but I've been averaging a failure a week on my two W2K systems that I've been running since release 3.0. That's one a week too often. In fact, one day, a workstation system just up and died like a dog with the gold release without any rhyme or reason.