[ale] nice article in Sun World for the PHB's ;-)

[Chris Ricker]

Check out

http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1999/swol-04-idcnt.html

Key point:

<quote>

"Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is being adopted
by organizations of all sizes for every conceivable mission and that
organizations are abandoning their investments in other operating
environments," said Dan Kuznetsky, program director for IDC's operating
environments and serverware research programs. "However, when IDC shines the
light of empirical research on Windows NT usage, a different view emerges."

According to IDC, NT is used primarily as a departmental infrastructure
server, for things like file/print, messaging, and communications, rather
than as a major enterprise server running mission-critical applications. The
rest is just good advertising.

</quote>


later,
chris

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