LAN and WAN Analysis Current Release OS Essay

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LAN and WAN Analysis

Current Release

OS X Mountain Lion

Linux kernel 3.4; GNU C. Library

Windows Server 2008 R2 (NT 6.1.7600)

S-Net

SP

IBM AIX Variant

(UNIX System V Release

Range of compatible hardware

Low

Performance

High for fine-tuned applications to the processor and O.S. API calls (1)

Very High for natively-written applications

Medium for applications using emulation mode; very high for 64-bit applications

Slow for applications emulating MS-Windows; fast for direct API-call based applications

Very high for applications written directly to the UNIX API; support for emulated API calls slows down performance

Corporate Acceptance

Medium

Very High

Very High

Medium

High

Installed Base

Millions of Users

Millions of Users

Millions of Users

Thousands of Users

Millions of Users

Directory Services Power

Medium; not as well defined as Microsoft

Very Strong; supporting taxonomies

Very Strong with Win64-based Directories

Very High; the operating system is based on this

High

Stability

High

Very High; strong base of developers

Very High; Microsoft now into 3rd gen.

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Moderate; Novell is seeking a new revenue model

Very High

Software Cost

Very High

Low to Free

High including site licensing

Medium to High

Medium to High

TCP/IP Support

Partial of the entire TCP/IP command set

Full support due to the developer community

Full support with advanced security

Partial of the entire TCP/IP command set

Full support due to the developer community

Security Strength

Strong; now several generations into this operating system

Very strong; global developer base continues to refine it

Medium to Strong; needs more focus on enterprise support

File Server; NDS make this one of the most secure server operating systems

Very strong, especially the IBM AIX operating system

(1) Application Programmer Interface (API) calls.....

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