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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12390)	11/20/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: paul	of 74651

"..Because enterprise software which used to entirely run on unix servers has moved to NT. Now we have a choice for a lot of midsize enterprise apps" ERP software run's on mainframes and minicomputers as well - In fact IBM is having a lot of success with their S/390 and SAP and Oracle Applications. Unix has a lot of room to run for ERP - NT is an option as an application server or for a low end implementation - under 300 users max for Oracle Apps in my experience. This is the market that JD Edwards used to have with the AS/400 as well as great plains and solomon software. The issue for NT is what happens when you run out of capacity which can happen pretty quick - its like buying a computer with the fastest CPU and a 1.2 MB Hard Drive. Buying the big hard drive (scalable, maintainable Computer System - i.e - NOT NT) is the better choice up front rather than having to migrate or throw more disks at it later to try to solve this problem. NT is a reasonable choice if you fit under these requirements but as a CFO/CIO your basically betting against the growth of your own company.

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