Energy Co. Lab
One of our corporate lab partners is a Bay Area energy company whose worldwide network includes some 13,000 users and virtually every kind of networking hardware and software. Network Computing Contributing Editor Jay Milne spends several days a week at this company, working on NT, messaging, and network-oriented product evaluations, test plans, and other projects. Network Computing and this energy company cooperate on projects for the magazine as well as for their IT organization, thus bringing the real-world experiences of IS managers directly into our pages.
Lab Description:
Number of servers and clients:
30,000 PCs on their network (primarily Windows 95 and NT)
2,000 Macintoshes
Operating systems:
Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x
Microsoft NT 4.0
Their major applications include:
SAP on HP Unix
Microsoft Exchange
Oracle data bases
IIS web servers
legacy applications running on the mainframe
Over 30 different sites connected via
High Speed WAN connections ranging from
56Kb to T3
Located around the world from the US to the USSR, Australia to South Africa and everywhere in between.
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