Windows NT/Windows 2000 Finally Enterprise-Ready, Aberdeen Group Report States; New Report Examines Windows NT/2000's Suitability for Mission-Critical Computing Environments

Business Wire, Dec 16, 1999

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1999--

In a report released today, Aberdeen Group states that, under certain conditions, Windows NT and Windows 2000 are suitable for deployment in mission-critical computing environments. Aberdeen Group's conclusions are based on interviews with IS executives, system planners, NT administrators, and line-of-business managers who have deployed NT-based servers for critical functions in vertical industries such as banking, finance, transportation/logistics, electronic manufacturing, and travel.

"This research changed our minds about NT," says report author Joe Clabby. Prior to the study, Clabby says he believed that NT was best suited as a workgroup operating environment due to its reliability, manageability, scalability, and security issues. "We spoke to executives who were running NT servers for real-world, real-money transaction processing applications; critical decision-support applications; and mail and messaging applications. We found example after example of successful mission-critical NT installations."

The report, entitled Is Windows NT/Windows 2000 Enterprise-Ready?, closely examines the real and perceived NT operating environment limitations and related platform limitations; the forthcoming enterprise-level benefits that can be derived by using Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating environment; and the conditions that must be observed to ensure that, once deployed, NT systems and applications continue to operate in a reliable fashion. The report measures NT's enterprise-readiness against seven critical characteristics: system scalability; system reliability and availability; system, storage, and network system/subsystem manageability; system security; directory services; interoperability; and the availability of qualified resources to design, deploy, and manage NT/Windows 2000 environments in an enterprise-class setting.

About Aberdeen Group

Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group provides IT consulting and market strategy advice to the IT supplier community. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen focuses on answering clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aberdeen Group has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com.

Note: If you are interested in viewing additional information about this report or downloading the Table of Contents and Executive Summary, please visit www.aberdeen.com/ab_company/hottopics/nt2000/nt2000.htm on Aberdeen's Web site.