NT Server serving the business. (Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0)

Member Name: space cadet

Product:	Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Date:	04/07/00 (150 review reads)
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Advantages: proven in the real world for over 5 years

Disadvantages: only useful for businesses

Windows NT (New Technology) Server 4.0 is an operating system for servers and is mainly aimed at the business user. It has been around now for about five years and is only just being superseded in February this year by the Windows 2000 Server family. This does not mean however that it is obselete, in fact until 2000 server proves itself, you will find that many businesses will stick to NT 4.0 for a while yet. This is also mainly due to an upgrade issue as well, which for large companies who must see a positive benefit are actively afraid of the cost. NT 4.0, now in its 6th upgrade (service pack), has certainly proved it's ground in the "real world". It's more stable and robust than ever, but security is still amajor issue especially with todays ever growing market for e-commerce and the storage of mission-critical client data. I was going to give a real techy opinion on this product, but thought twice when considering the possible readers here as they would do much better by going to microsoft's site and getting all the tech specs there.

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