Case Studies

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)

600 WFW 3.11, Windows95, and NT Workstation clients

6 main servers running a mixture of NT Server 3.51 and Server 4.0

2 Compaq servers, a ProLiant 1500 and a ProLiant 5000 are the PDC and BDC

Microsoft Exchange with the Defense Messaging System standard Exchange Server handles 4000-7000 messages a day: Compaq 200MHz Pentium Pro server with 396MB of RAM and an 18GB RAID array

http://www.uclastore.ucla.edu/

24x7 website developed using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access on the database interfaces Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) expands its retail stores to the we using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Used Microsoft BackOffice (NT Server 4.0, Ineternet Information Server, Microsoft SQL Server)

"Looking at our crystal ball, we thought that Windows NT Server would be more pervasive in the future, it was certainly easier to use, and that Microsoft would likely expand its platform at a much more rapid rate than UNIX would," says San Marchi. "We felt there was a better match for us with the Microsoft environment and that it would serve us better in the future."