Re: NT server, pro/con

In article <D4668H.H9K@world.std.com>, <shf@world.std.com> writes: > I'm interested in hearing people's evaluation of the merits > and demerits of an NT server in a server/client RDB > environment. Speed, reliability, security, expandability, > ease of learning the system administration work, ease of > performing it--talking here about the NT side of things, > not the RDB side--are obvious areas of concern. Are there > others? How does NT stack up, to date? I just left a company that has been a heavy SCO user, but was experimenting with NT. As a longtime UNIX-type also, I was particularly interested in the NT Systems Admin tasks and was extremely concerned when it took an NT technician from Microsoft over a week just to get the software installed and operational. Initial benchmarking of a helpdesk package on the NT system running dual-RISC and a UNIX server running single 486 did not seem to show the expected performance advantage we thought the NT server should have. I'm sure this will draw some fire, but I was not impressed with NT. John Johnson Turnaround Computing