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Results of an e-mail survey sent to 500 randomly selected Network Computing readers. Readers were selected from those involved with the NOS purchase process.
Rate the Following Issues in order of importance
when selecting a NOS (lower is better)
Stability and Reliability
1.91
Applications and 3rd Party Support
4.53
File/Print/Directory Performance
4.47
Manageability
4.04
Total Cost of Ownership
5.24
Standards Support
5.15
Reputation of NOS vendor
6.63
Support Provided by the Vendor
5.39
Security
4.63
Hardware Support
6.59
Where do you spend most of your IT dollars in relation to NOS selection:
Server Hardware costs
28.07%
Infrastructure Costs
19.30%
Aministrative costs
14.03%
Client Support Costs
15.79%
Server Support Costs
7.02%
Application Software Costs
14.03%
Client upgrade costs
1.75%
Have you made a strategic NOS change within the last 18 months:
Yes
41.38%
No
58.62%
How many sites make up your corporate WAN?
Less than 5
43.60%
6 to 10
18.18%
11 to 20
5.45%
Over 20
32.73%
How Many Users at your site?
Less than 100
22.64%
100 to 500
30.18%
500 to 2500
22.64%
2500 to 10000
18.87%
over 10000
5.66%
How many users at your en
tire company?
Less than 100
16.36%
100 to 500
21.82%
500 to 2500
18.18%
2500 to 10000
12.73%
over 10000
30.91%
Please rank each NOS for each category from 1 to 5
(1 being WEAK and 5 being STRONG).
Price
UNIX
3.33
NT
3.34
NetWare
3.36
Interoperability
UNIX
3.27
NT
3.33
NetWare
3.41
Performance
UNIX
3.96
NT
3.29
NetWare
3.51
Cost of Ownership
UNIX
3.04
NT
3.22
NetWare
3.32
Hardware Support
UNIX
3.09
NT
3.31
NetWare
3.52
Ease of Use
UNIX
2.65
NT
3.59
NetWare
3.4
Administrative Capabilities
UNIX
3
NT
3.43
NetWare
3.62
File and Print capabilities
UNIX
3.05
NT
3.41
NetWare
4.07
Application Hosting Capabilities
UNIX
3.47
NT
3.69
NetWare
2.95
Application Support
UNIX
3.09
NT
3.67
NetWare
3.3
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