The company's ballyhooed bets on the new infrastructure paradigm -- MSN and NT -- have been slow to catch fire.
The ripple effect may even reach networking companies, including Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) and Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ).
Meanwhile, National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, who won two awards - for best director and a special award for his leadership at the NT - said further cuts to theatre budgets made "no economic sense whatsoever".
But like an alcoholic who hits rock-bottom and reaches out for help, the latest news suggests that Nortel (nyse: NT - news - people ) is finally facing up to its problems.
But he did say that, in some cases, an NT box running Sendmail will be more secure than an NT box running Microsoft Exchange -- which he identified as probably Sendmail's largest competitor in the MTA space on NT.
Likewise, they added support for Windows NT on Intel or non-Intel platforms because they assumed NT would sweep the world.
However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.
Before, the company's Windows NT- and Unix-based data center and 100 users were at a separate Upper East Side site.
But Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people), at least, managed to end its losing streak.
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.
With the infrastructure UPS already has in place, it wouldn't make sense to switch to Oracle databases in a non-NT environment, he said.
Jaded guidance from Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people) has investors questioning when inventory issues will subside and telecom spending will resume.
He caught a similar wave when he bought Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), a stock he'd avoided during the telecom bubble.
"Theoretically, capacity falls as it goes through more hops, " says Mark Whitton, general manager for wireless networks at Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ).
Instead of having several interfaces for each of its NT-based management tools as Microsoft has in the past, with Windows 2000 the company will offer a single, unified interface across all management tools, called the Microsoft Management Console.
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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.
The company launched in 1996 as a division of Bay Networks , and then became part of the Canadian telecom concern Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), which spun it off in 1998.
In addition to losing its digital subscriber line business, Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people), a JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) competitor, is losing its chief operating officer, Clarence Chandran .
Just as his case got going, the SEC filed civil stock fraud charges against Frank A. Dunn and three other former executives of Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), the Canadian darling of the Internet stock bubble.
Over the years Nortel (nyse: NT - news - people ), Honeywell (nyse: HON - news - people ), Scientific-Atlanta (nyse: SFA - news - people ) and Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) all tried--and failed--to devise reliable power line networks.
Windows NT on Intel stands alone, and the hope of selling more non-Intel hardware based on the success of NT has collapsed.
WPA-PSK, NT and NTLM passwords have all long been known to be vulnerable to dictionary attacks that try every possible set of words that compose a password.
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Observers also say there has been a perception that Net-Ware couldn't handle transactions as efficiently as Windows NT or Unix because it lacked pre-emptive processing.
Originally, the company was to have scrapped DOS by now, but it faced mounting technical challenges in adapting NT to include consumer-friendly features such as video games.
These evoke a sense of awe and wonder, of visceral truths and inchoate depths, and of literary curiosity, that is hard to find or even imagine in literature as historically-situated as the NT (and most anything since then).
Miller's current company is a pure NT environment using a multiple-master domain model.
The "intriguing" finding comes from research within two of the UK's leading cultural bodies - the National Theatre (NT) and the Tate.
With its low-end workstation and server markets coming under attack from economy-class machines using off-the-shelf Intel chips and Microsoft NT software, Palo Alto, Calif.
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