samba version release questions

[Hayden Wimmer]

we have been evaluating samba as a server for some time.  we have a good
deal of applications that are nt server specific such as com apps, mts, and
IIS applications,  the 2 o/s'es need to live together happliy.

1.  when will the next major samba version be released (so far, i have heard
october)?

2.  will it have win2k support (clients and servers)

3. will it provide domain controlling for 95/98/nt/2000 well enough that it
can be used in an environment with NT and allow our apps that use nt
authentication to run (they validate based on the domain)

thanks for you help

a troubled system admin

hayden