A perfectly capable, well formed SOS. (Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0)

Member Name: AndreBoyle

Product:	Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Date:	07/07/00 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: Microsoft, Flexibility, Support

Disadvantages: Cost, Bad Press

It's stable, until it breaks. That's what you'll hear. But then cars work perfectly until they don't. The sun shines until it's dark. And black is black until... well until someone paints it white.. or some other colour.

Windows NT is a very respectable server OS (I should say Network OS) which fits in nicely to the Microsoft Schema.

NT comes in numerous flavours as you know :-

. Workstation
. Server

But there's various flavours of server version, including an enterprise one which is designed to server very very large installations.

The multi-tiered domain model which is used in NT is suitable, in most cases, to larger companies wanting to segment their LAN/WAN design into logical segments. You'll find that everything in NT is geared towards this design methodology, although it'll be much more flexibile than just that. So if growth is your bag then check out NT for that.
It's scaleable to such an extent that I'd really rather not get into it hear. Read the MS blurb about the product and see if it does everything you need.

Just know this before running out and buying the product, it's very well supported... not by MS though (Very costly). It's an adopted standard for many many companies these days and is used everywhere from non IT related fields to Web servers and beyond (Data warehouses, etc.)

Many people will say that the ServicePacks simply show-up it's flaws. In this case Linux must be the worst system in the world, it's open source and has many tens of thousands of developers working on improving it. ServicePacks are just that... improvements. And be glad they're free. MS cares about this OS technology and it will definitely care for your data.

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