I have been working with NT on trading floors of various banks for the past few years and I am currently beginning an intergeration of Unix and NT on Fuji's trading floor. One of my main concerns is how to intergerate smoothly NT's and Solaris' name spaces. A product we are looking at to accomplish the matter is Uname It. The product proposes that it is will give one centralized database of user id's, hostnames, ip addresses, etc. Currently the NT client has not been release, but from demoes and beta products their claim seems to be true.

Another issue is NT security and how Microsoft intends and how it has implemeted security into its operating system. Question that are of interested are: Is there a way to intergrate both Solaris' and NT security schema. If there, what is the best way to approach this or if not, how can we accomplish a close nit security schema with the least amount of administration.

We are currently using NT v4.0 server and workstation and we also have a few Win95 machines in the domain. The company will be using a multiple domain model, ie., each major office will have its own PDC and will be the administrator of its own domain. We are doing this to be consistent with our Unix domain setup.

A few other concerns is the stabilty of the operating systems and its installed services and how it relates to the operating system's performace. I raise this issue because I have seen performace issues arise with both workstations and servers that have been up for an extended period of time. Is there a recommended amount of time a machine should be up before it is rebooted to refresh the system. Or is this an enviroment specific issue.

Lastly the future of NT. We all have seen NT 5.0 beta and what microsoft promise with it, but what lies beyond NT 5.0 and how will effect our current hardware, apps, etc.

Joseph Boyer Jr
System Administrator
Fuji Capital Markets Corp.
2 World Trade Center
80th Floor
NY, NY 10048
Phone #: (212)898-2884
Email: boyer@fcmc.com