You have to know that if you scuttled the pack in favour of XP alone, your next client would be in great and immediate need of a COM-integrated, multi-client solution involving Domino, MS-SQL and Office, would need it day-after-tomorrow, and would be willing to pay a HUGE premium for it. Keeping the pack prevents that sort of thing from happening. It's one of the more obscure Laws of Economics, but it is inviolable.
You have to know that if you scuttled the pack in favour of XP alone, your next client would be in great and immediate need of a COM-integrated, multi-client solution involving Domino, MS-SQL and Office, would need it day-after-tomorrow, and would be willing to pay a HUGE premium for it. Keeping the pack prevents that sort of thing from happening. It's one of the more obscure Laws of Economics, but it is inviolable.