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I worked in the US. Most of my clients during this period were large government agencies, large healthcare providers and several large multi-office legal practi
by tssva 5y ago
I worked in the US. Most of my clients during this period were large government agencies, large healthcare providers and several large multi-office legal practices. With the exception of the healthcare providers all of them ran Novell Netware networks using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on client PCs.
The healthcare providers usually ran a mixture of WfW 3.11 and OS/2 on clients. Many of these clients were at nursing stations where the OS/2 machines had replaced 3270 terminals and were used strictly as terminals. When Windows 95 and Windows 98 were released they replaced WfW 3.11 and at the healthcare providers also OS/2 on clients.
I had one customer that tested NT 3.1 on a couple of servers but ultimately passed on deploying in production. With NT 3.51 deployment on certain application servers started to happen and with NT4 it pretty much replaced Netware on file/print servers and was deployed for Exchange which quickly upon release started taking large market share from other mail solutions. The only deployment of NT prior to Windows 2000 on clients I saw was system administrator PCs. Windows 2000 was deployed more widely but mostly to those doing specific types of tasks. Usually replacing unix workstations. Normal client PCs only moved to NT with XP.