Riedesg works at a university, where major system upgrades have to be planned around the academic calendar (i.e., they can only take systems down for upgrades when school is out). This can cause some problems:
"The hardware that is backing our upgrade/migration to Exchange 2003 has been delayed. A shipping error somewhere, and Compaq can't tell us when they'll have the hardware available to ship. 'Backordered.' This has the unfortunate side-effect of pushing our upgrade of this product to the period between the end of second summer term and the beginning of fall quarter. ... Exchange is effectively halted until August. Which runs it right into our planned upgrade from NetWare 6.0 to NetWare 6.5. Since that particular migration involves taking down the cluster for non trivial amounts of time, it will HAVE to happen during the dead period between terms. Have to have to. We only get three weeks a year to do these kinds of upgrades and if the technology isn't there... we wait another year. We'd like to try NetWare 7, but it won't be out in time. ..."
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