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Merger Whoas!
LockedI am involved in a merger of two medium sized global companies with extremely different infrastructure solutions. One company uses Novell Intranetware in a single global NDS tree for file and print and NT 4.0 for applications. This company’s infrastructure employs a standards based approach to servers and desktops and has approx 7500 users. The second company uses NT 4.0 for file and print as well as applications. This infrastructure is comprised of multiple domains and is for the most partdecentralized and does not employ any standards with approx 4000 users. Now for the task the CIO has set the following directions: He wants a single global network which is centralized and standardized and will afford the user the ability to log in from anywhere in the world with a single I.D.. The CIO has chosen Microsoft products as the target direction for infrastructure based on market share. My questions is, are there any compelling 3rd party articles that you are aware of the argue either way on this subj