Brown envelopes all round!

These jokers are PUBLIC SERVANTS. They don't want to tell their bosses (the public) what the terms of the under-the-table deal with Microsoft? Time for some new public servants!

Sorry Officer you cant look in my swag bag - "Commercial Interest exemption"

Puplic money and private deal. It may be easier to find out who bought a new car, house or maybe a nice trip to the tropics.

NewHam, Here maybe solution for your data gathering needs:
Microsoft Tuesday unveiled the second release candidate for its long awaited Hyper-V hypervisor, which adds minor tweaks like guest operating system support for Windows 2000 Server . 

It only installs on Server 2008 systems & there are other virtualization progams that'll interconnect windows to windows all over place. So how Hard could it Be?.
hyper Visor is Beta at present & downloadable FREE from microsoft.
Basicly HyperVisor leaves your Windows 2000 machines inplace & lets you expand to server 2008, which is radically improved, both software & Hardware needed to play it.
drashek

When I see Hp,I cringe. $5,000 desktop Printers? Marginal Computers about same, NO Regard for Customer, Yuk. However, heres rub, probably Hp is Telling NEWHAM they need to remove old system before get New System.

Its Just Not True, it would be better to install second completely New (Vista?)NT6 sytem in minature, see that all results are same for what software does comply for both, then find way to interlink two systems & phase out 2000. BTW arn't you mixing Server & Desktop O/S?
Oh, Yes You are,W2K: its Advanced Server O/s being replaced by unfinalized desktop system, NOT Likely to be as Satisfying. Whine,Whine.

Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K ) is a preemptive , interruptible, graphical and business-oriented operating system designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor computers. It is part of the Microsoft Windows NT line . Actually NT4. Now you want to change Guts & protocols to NT6, For NO Reason Outside Advertised NameGame? Good Luck.
Buggers O' Dee Honorable types. You first off NEED Windows SERVER 2008.
Or better yet, bunch o' file cabnets & paper forms.
drashek