Indeed, after decades of mainframe computer use, combined with a decade of personal computing, information generation has reached unprecedented levels. However, in business, information creation in itself is insufficient to give competitive companies a strategic advantage. In business, decision-makers need easy access to the right information instantaneously.
Competitive advantage depends on better management and distribution of information.
Information must be readily available, current and protected from misuse or tampering. These requirements demand a system for enterprise-wide distribution and access to information. It's very likely that in the next two years many of us will be using Windows NT in our workplace, because Windows NT is arguably the most powerful operating system platform available for client-server computing. Client-server computing is a very efficient because it handles processing where it makes the most sense, split between powerful servers and desktop machines. Client-server computing eliminates the need to move large blocks of information over the network to the PC for processing.