Week 2 CSS 561

Huffman Trucking

Operating System Survey

Writer 493 Huffman Trucking

Huffman trucking is a freight company operating in four states . Each site , office and plant , has a distinct mix of operating systems on a variety of platforms including PCs , terminals , mainframes , and telephony controllers . The following is a brief examination of what was found at each site

Site Survey

California

The California office is running several classes of machines , four PCs and a server . The PCs are using Windows 95 , Windows 95 SR2 , Windows 98 and Windows 3 .1

. The office server supports IIS 4 .0 and so is probably running Windows NT Server 4 .0 (Sheresh , Sheresh , and Cowart , 1999

The California plant is also using several classes of machines , five servers , 40 PCs , and 7 Macs . The servers are running Windows 2000 , and possibly Windows NT server (MS Exchange 5 .0 came out in 1997 (Redmond 1997 ) and Proxy server 2 .0 dates to the same era , The PC workstations are all running Windows XP PRO , and the Mac workstations are running MAC OSX

Missouri

The Missouri office has a large group of PCs running XP professional one group of PCs using Windows 2000 Professional , A Novell NOS server a Lotus Notes Server (probably NT4 Server , an Apache Server (Linux or Windows , several Windows 2000 servers , and some Macs running OSX

The Missouri plant is based on a single Mainframe server so a multi-user OS such as IBM 's OS /390 is probably being used

New Jersey

The New Jersey office is utilizing several PCs running Windows 3 .1 Windows 95 , Win 95 SR2 , and Win98 . The office server is running probably running Windows NT Server 4 .0 based on its IIS version (Sheresh 1999

The New Jersey Plant is not running any operating systems onsite . All computer work is accomplished via dumb terminals connected to a remote mainframe

Ohio

The Ohio office is setup identically to the Missouri office , Windows XP Pro , Windows 2000 , NT4 , Linux , and OSX

The Ohio Plant is also identical to the Missouri site configuration Dumb terminals connected to a single mainframe , probably running an OS similar to IBM 's OS /390

Operating System Overview

Win 3 .1 , Win95 , Win95 SR2 , and Win98 are all legacy operating systems They provide a graphical operating environment that runs on top of the DOS operating system . Win 3 .1 lacks some networking features taken for granted in modern operating systems . All of these operating systems are intended for the desktop

Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional are `modern desktop operating systems able to take advantage of current network and security features needed in today 's enterprise

Mac OS X is another modern desktop operating system . It is often used in graphic design workstations rather than normal office productivity applications though office applications are available for this platform

Windows NT4 Server , and Windows 2000 Server are server class network operating systems . They can control network resources and provide application and services . Windows NT4 is a legacy...