Date:     May 27, 1999             Time: 3:22 PM
From:     Jerry Lawson
          The Hartford Insurance Group
(860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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We have been using ADSM on MVS for several years now, and I have a good
We have been using ADSM on MVS for several years now, and I have a good
background in that area.  However, we now have a group of users
(approximately 400 desktop users) that will be moving to another office
building, and backing up to our mainframe will not be practical.  I proposed
to the customer that they use a local ADSM server, and they like the idea.
The question now on the table is "which one"?

At this point we are open to the platform choice. The area will have
expertise in both NT and Unix.  This is a customer support area, so NT, Sun,
AIX, and possibly HP are options.  My question to the list is as follows:

If you had the option of platform, which one would you pick to support a 400
user desktop environment? (No servers at this time.)  Is NT robust enough to
handle it, or would AIX or Solaris be a better choice?  How big would you
make the server, and which Tape solution would you recommend?

This is not a "blue sky, if I had a million" question - we do have to have a
reasonable price tag on this solution, so please don't get too carried away
in your proposed configuration.

Thanks in advance.
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                                                     Jerry
                                                     Jerry