We are primary a Unix Production Server and Unix Line Controller production application shop. With a few Novell Servers and Unix Datebase Servers mix in. We have few Industrial PC's scattered around the production floor support-ed by Novell Servers and unix database servers. Our production Software applications are unix base and Win16 base that run on Industrial PC's under Microsoft Windows System. We have started replacing our Novell Servers with Microsoft Windows NT Server Systems. We desided to migrate our Win16 Appli-cations to Win32 Applications. Along with this we are migrating towards OLE Servers and more use of Visual Basic from Microsoft. This has placed more demand for Windows NT Servers and Loading Windows NT operating systems on our industrial PC's. Most all of our Software Application are heavily LAN based using our own TCP/IP base CIM Sockets for Communication. With this we will be changing to ClearCase for Software Revision Control. Also, we will be centralizing our PLC State and Latter Code Software Servers. We use a lot NFS Mounting for backup production Servers which speed up network com-munication and allows us to Ninstall to our production servers if one of them gets it's data or application corrupted to restore the computer to proper run-ning order. While we are rolling out new production lines alone with working to accomplish our migration goals and retrofit existing lines to meet our migration goals. This must take place with minimum production disruption and keeping our LAN Structure intact.

So we need to develope our Windows NT expertise to accomplish these goals stated above. Especially get into Windows NT System operating System inter-action with network, so we can intergrade it into our LAN Structure. We also need to have better understanding of application developement done on Windows NT and more about that process. With this we need to know Windows NT version developement path so our migration plans do not run into a dead end. We will also explore better ways to intergrade our Windows NT Servers with our Unix Database Servers. we are also interested in Windows NT oper-ating System Real Time response and ways of influencing it.

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