One example of these is the IBM Infoprint Manager, print management software that provides central control of workgroup and production printing. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol standard and allows mobile users to print for any InfoPrint Manager-supported printer, anywhere, via a URL, said Jeffrey Calhoun, manager global software, IBM printing systems. For the last six months, Armonk, N.Y.-based computing powerhouse IBM has managed an Enterprise Deployment Partner Program and has used that experience to put together packages and centralized information resources to help migrate customers. One of those 15 partners is ADP-Dealer Services, which services a network of 18,000 dealer customers. It has been testing Windows 2000 since last July, said Craig Wassenburg, ADP vice president of shared services.
Reliability is great and the scalability is excellent.
Some of the best and brightest are rallying around the newest Microsoft system. For most, the goal is to work with Microsoft to ease customers' deployment and migration burdens. Compaq and Dell, for instance are offering a broad variety of products and services and are active participants in this week's launch. Hewlett-Packard recently launched its Microsoft Service Operation, a new business unit with HP Services specifically for helping customers run Windows 2000. HP also started shipping Wednesday 13 HP desktop and notebook PC models preloaded with the new operating system its Windows 2000-ready NetServer systems.