If they are bringing in new machines right now, they should get the machines with Windows NT and then upgrade to Windows 2000 when we release it. If you have Windows NT on your existing machines, then you will have a good experience going from NT to 2000. If you have to touch thousands of machines to upgrade them to Windows NT, then you might want to wait for Windows 2000 to be released. Currently, the company is running Windows 95 and NT 4. When the oil company moves to Windows 2000 it will have standardized on one environment.
Users can save money with a consistent environment.
For example, if you have Windows NT on your desktops and Windows 95 on your laptop, that isn't as efficient as having one environment. You save money with one environment. We do support upgrades from Windows 98 to 2000. Our upgrade procedures support that. It depends on the customer situation.