How many system administrator can say that with a straight face?
Probably quite a few people. NT Server really is hitting the Small-Medium range business, and SOHO market. It's considered a viable replacement for Netware.
The company I work for (a mid-size financial services company in Toronto) has 15 Novell Intranet-ware servers for our file & CC-Mail servers, and 71 NT Servers for print services & application services. NT is quite stable & reliable. File, Print & Application services were what this thing was designed for, and it does those things well.
On the other hand, all of our databases run on real operating systems & hardware: Our backoffice is outsourced on MVS mainframes, our major databases are on AS/400 with I believe one small system on NT/Oracle, all our trading-floor (read mission-critical) sytems are on Sun/Sybase, and our 3000+ branches are on RS/6000.
So, don't give me the "Microsoft lemming" schpiel. NT does a lot, but not everything. Personally, I think NT 4 wasn't much of a leap over NT 3.51, it will be NT 5 that shows the huge feature boost.
Except for Redhat (or Caldera) Linux, which really deserves praise for a stable, cheap and efficient server, I can't think of another NOS that deserves a top-award this year.
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