possibilities everything works intranet/internet scaling up starting up going farther making life better

It’s a measure of how far the PC, and PC networks, have come. And how much farther they can go in bringing greater flexibility, higher productivity and lower cost to a computing environment that has traditionally operated with expensive, proprietary systems that demand almost constant maintenance.

Consider managing an entire enterprise database, one hundred million Web site hits, 1.8 million e-mails or one billion ATM transactions a day with a PC network. That is precisely the power you have with our BackOffice platform. Windows NT Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server and other BackOffice servers are already at work for private and public companies and government agencies.

The promise of this technology is in opening an enormous market to our products, extending our reach from the Internet to the desktop and throughout the enterprise. It’s a new paradigm, and we think people will see the immediate value of the choice we offer between perpetuating proprietary systems or embracing efficient, open, scalable systems.

We believe the latter to be the right choice. Our approach to enterprise computing achieves quantifiable increases in efficiency and productivity, with dramatic cost savings. It’s a combination everyone wants.


  

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