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Posted by: dorseyt
Date posted: Sun, 15 Jun 1997

We love NT here. We love it so much, we are dumping it. I wonder how many people actually used it on a network. I'm not sure if I voted for Netware or OS/2 server, but Netware 4.1 is very nice for a network with more than 100 users. I only have the OS/2 Warp Server demo, but it was very nice and fast. The main problem I see with NT Server is its lack of stability (NT is nice and solid for a client) and its bloated hardware requirements. NT needs too many servers to support a large number of users and it seems to have a hard time co-existing with multiple servers.

I have seen the results that NT is selling more servers now, but I would like to see some statistics on how many users actually use these servers. Right now, we still have a section using 2 NT servers to support less than 30 users and over 30 Netware servers supporting at least 100 users each with some supporting over 200 users. After experiencing with NT Server, I will say that it is nice, but not good enough. Maybe in a few years when the CPU can speed it up enough and if they clean up their code and get rid of their ridiculous statements in their license agreements, it may actually earn their place instead of getting it through marketing muscle.

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