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To: EPS who wrote (22395)	6/2/1998 6:58:00 AM
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From a YAHOO post................... NT Server 5.0 ... Reliability and Performance Concerns Date: 05/20/98 Author: Todd Chipman Catalyst: Analyst evaluation of Windows NT Server 5.0 Question: Will Windows NT Server 5.0 be reliable in enterprise networks? Answer: Microsoft has chosen to include the "kitchen sink" in its next release of Windows NTS by supporting key new capabilities like: 1) directory services---Active Directory, 2) intellimirroring---advance network client caching and registry store, 3) authentication and access control---via Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Kerberos and Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and 4) NT client and server management--- through the Microsoft Management Console. Windows NT Server will grow from 16.5 million lines of code in = NTS version 4.0 (Service Pack 3) to more than 30 million lines of code in NTS version 5.0, representing an 82 percent code base increase. Considering that NetWare 5.0 will have approximately 10 million lines of code when it ships and traditional UNIX solutions have between 6 million and 10 million lines of code, NTS 5.0 represents a network operating system (NOS) behemoth approaching mainframe class operating systems. In addition, a = majority of the NTS 5.0 kernel has been rewritten, exacerbating stability and reliability concerns. Given that it took Microsoft several years to stabilize NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 3, there is a high probability [.9p] that it will take Microsoft at least two to three years to stabilize Windows NT Server 5.0. Moreover, NT Server 5.0's overall size will likely create server performance problems: to use a recent advertising slogan, "Size Does Matter." Larger complex programs such as network operating systems take longer to execute due to their overall executable size but also to sophisticated programming techniques used for multithreaded operations, multitasking support and client services. Giga believes clients should wait at least two to three years to upgrade or migrate to Windows NT Server 5.0 due = to performance and reliability concerns. Recommendations Users should not purchase or deploy Windows NT Server 5.0 until it stabilizes over time and performance is proven suitable for enterprisenetworks. Users who desire to migrate or upgrade their network operating systems to Windows NT Server should move to NT Server 4.0 (Service Pack 4) and plan to stay on this release for the next two to three years.

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