Thanks to Ben Cooper
for this link.
“Windows NT isn’t quite the juggernaut the media has cracked it
up to be, according to research from International Data Corp.
(IDC). The media and successful marketing by Microsoft, says the
Framingham, MA-based think tank, has been blowing the operating
system’s success out of proportion.”
“Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is
being adopted by organizations of all sizes for every conceivable
mission and that organizations are abandoning their investments in
other operating environments,” said Dan Kuznetsky, program director
for IDC’s operating environments and serverware research programs.
“However, when IDC shines the light of empirical research on
Windows NT usage, a different view emerges.”
“According to IDC, NT is used primarily as a departmental
infrastructure server, for things like file/print, messaging, and
communications, rather than as a major enterprise server running
mission-critical applications. The rest is just good
advertising.”