The Joint Intelligence Center Pacific, JICPAC is a high end computer consumer. Some workstations are do not require quite as high and end. with 1,000 internal and 1500 external customers connected at all hours, the challenge is there. JICPAC is investigating the migration from an environment of 85% Unix, 10% Windows 3.1, and 5% Mac OS to one of 30% Unix, 65% NT, and 5% Mac OS. With many legacy Unix applications not yet, if ever moving to NT, there is some concern over this vast shift in platform. JICPAC presents a unique testbed for NT, providing the opportunity to push the limits of NT's capabilities, entering research areas, only dominated by high-end Unix processors.

At JICPAC, we must determine how far NT can extend into the high-end workstation arena. Issues are legacy system support, Xterminal emulation, Windd integration in to the NT domain, NT security, collaboration tools in a heterogeneous environment, mail and attachments, graphics to match the MAC and SUN hich end processing. Parrellelism and file sharing along with collaboration is an issue at JICPAC.