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To: ProDeath who wrote (44799)	5/15/2000 8:53:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

schmandel - I fully agree that good systems skills and a cross-platform integration history are a huge help in a successful design. I would also agree with your comments on the lack of many key tools in the windows environment even today, and certainly 15 years ago it was "roll your own". As far as support, we supported a couple of those systems (one large, one smaller) for more than 10 years, although local techhnical staff did much of the "dirty work". They were pretty much trouble free. But I will admit that most of the administration, and much of the key systems management was done via Unix rather than NT, which was used mostly for the client boxes and some F&P support. The clients were also locked down pretty tightly, but that is also a requirement in a Unix-only environment. I believe that especially in the management area that NT and Win2K have a lot of work remaining. But as a client environment, Win2K is about there... especially when compared to earlier products.