As IT were the only ones using WinNT we’d set the UPS up to broadcast net send messages to all NT clients if it detected power loss. Unfortunately someone had upgraded the main meeting room’s projector PC to NT without us making that connection. So 5 minutes into the “Of course the company’s fine, ignore the rumours of our impending bankruptcy” meeting with all our major clients, the presentation was interrupted with a big message saying that all the servers were going down in five minutes. Not a good day.
Permanently two weeks from shutting down, zero budget, and worst the sales teams’ laptops weren’t good enough to run the software we were trying to sell. In the end the company was bought out by a large US org; the sudden cash injection was honestly the best thing that could have happened.
Just checked and the product still seems to be around 25 years later, albeit under a different name: https://www.infor.com/products/lx
As IT were the only ones using WinNT we’d set the UPS up to broadcast net send messages to all NT clients if it detected power loss. Unfortunately someone had upgraded the main meeting room’s projector PC to NT without us making that connection. So 5 minutes into the “Of course the company’s fine, ignore the rumours of our impending bankruptcy” meeting with all our major clients, the presentation was interrupted with a big message saying that all the servers were going down in five minutes. Not a good day.