But he's also in the process of switching over 68 application servers from NT to Unix.

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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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Meanwhile, Windows and Unix programmers had access to a host of popular application development tools, ranging from Visual Basic to Visual C.

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