The scalability of Windows 2000 has been stunning, and at the end of the day, this means we can focus on our business and our customers and not on worrying whether our systems can support our ever-expanding business. Reliability Windows 2000 provides a more reliable platform and has been designed from the ground up through an improved architecture to help ensure higher system uptime and more consistent application performance, enabling businesses to achieve greater levels of availability. We rely on our technology infrastructure to have a competitive advantage. With Windows 2000 running in production today throughout our organization, features like system file protection are reducing our support burden and freeing up IT resources. In addition, our 16-bit ticket sales application has worked flawlessly under Windows 2000, reducing our overall software costs and filling our stadiums.
Banking is an industry where mergers and acquisitions are a constant occurrence.
With Windows 2000 and Active Directory, we are able to store and manage our client information in a single directory rather than having it distributed across several hundred dissimilar databases. In addition, the Active Directory is interoperable with other databases within the company. This functionality helps minimize administration redundancy within our company and has already had a positive impact on our bottom line. Inacom has 10,500 employees working remotely in over 70 locations worldwide, many in client locations. Also, it enables us to have a very effective and secure enterprise collaboration platform in a distributed environment.