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I haven't heard this much bunk since the last Clinton speech.

Windows NT Server and Workstation are identical except for a few registry
settings, and the fact Server comes with a veritable truckload of tools and
utilities to manage a network and a domain and do software RAID on the
disks.  Do not fool around with the registry settings, because with 4.0, if
not done exactly right and in the proper time frame, you will have to
re-install NT.

Now, for prices.  Windows 98 is listed at $129 for the license.  I believe
Windows NT Workstation is listed at $209, tough I have seen it much lower
(maybe gray market.)  Windows NT Server is listed at $809 with 5 client
licenses.

AFAIK, NTS does not run faster than NTW, except that it tunes itself to
serve files and run background apps faster, which is what you want it to
do.  It would be ludicrous for Mickey$oft to purposely slow down NTW as a
single user workstation.

Gary poses a great question RE Exchange license.  He is correct in that MS
wants you to have the proper number of licenses, but that is the number of
connections at any one time, and even then, the software does not prevent
the number of sessions to exceed the license.  Rather it logs the event in
the system log so that you can see it an address it.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
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Joe wrote:

Yes, Exchange is licensed by the seat... but this is a little different:
This is akin to taking a PC which has Windows98 on it, and converting it to
NT without paying for the license - and vice versa.  Win98 costs about $100
retail and is single-seat.  NT is about $700 and each seat is additional
(about $35/seat if memory serves correctly).

Joe

And also:

As Michael and Jeff said - NT Workstation is "slowed down" over NT Server.
No, I'm not going to answer questions about which Registry Key to tweak
either.