While religious Christians have always seen the Hebrew Bible as building up to the NT, from a literary standpoint it packs even more of a punch (so to speak) for readers who are Jewish or can imagine themselves so.
But he's also in the process of switching over 68 application servers from NT to Unix.
For its part, Microsoft has spent considerable time and energy tamping down security problems with its own products, from NT and other server software to its Internet Explorer browser.
Moving from the NT server field to Unix, as Compaq intends to do, won't result in a mixed sales pitch from the company, Yeates said.
But under Gates relentless drumming, Windows NT is exploding, growing from less than 25% of units shipped in 1996 to nearly 40% last year.
International Data Corp. analyst Al Gillen says NetWare 5.1 might be just the thing to keep NetWare customers from moving to NT or Linux.
So, at least from some perspectives, the NT is itself an explosive plot twist relative to the Hebrew Bible.
"We're in the storage business but have redefined it from mainframes to Unix and NT systems and increasingly to software, " says EMC Chief Executive Michael Ruettgers, 55.
"One of the most intriguing results from the National's NT Live screenings is that, despite lower expectations, cinema audiences reported higher levels of emotional engagement with the production than theatre audiences, " the report said.
Jaded guidance from Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people) has investors questioning when inventory issues will subside and telecom spending will resume.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
The challenge for Rose now is to shift the customers Compaq inherited from Digital over to new Compaq servers utilizing Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
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.
The "intriguing" finding comes from research within two of the UK's leading cultural bodies - the National Theatre (NT) and the Tate.
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