The same clients who are purchasing NT-based servers for some client and application servers are sticking with Unix for business-critical applications, Yeates said.

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"Even if a company has plans to go to NT 5.0, the majority of organizations are going to wait a year to 15 months to implement it, " said Bill Peterson, an analyst at Framingham, Mass.

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International Data Corp. figures that Windows NT is installed on 4.6 million servers and that installations are growing at 25% a year worldwide.

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However, if the new Oracle 8i database would run on a non-NT machine that allowed users to connect to the database using the proprietary interface they are used to, it would be very interesting to MDS, he said.

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No Microsoft - we are a little bit concerned by the anti-trust suit against the company and the transition to Windows NT in the latter half of 1999.

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