A great example of this is the work that Dell Technology Consulting has done with Microsoft to roll out the largest Active Directory site in the world with the Toronto District School Board. This project will increase the efficiency of their operation while better managing the 300,000 users at 600 sites with 65,000 desktop computers. Their NT 4.0 architecture supports about 250 users per second, which makes the process slow and inefficient. The performance and scalability features, along with Dell's servers, make these solutions ideal for hosting companies, for ISPs, for ASPs, and for CSPs. Flexibility Finally, a business' flexibility in adapting to change and market dynamics will mark the winners and losers in this fast-changing Internet Age.
Flexibility is a tight pairing of speed and agility.
Linking businesses together using information is at the center of value creation in the Internet Age. Standards-based systems and Windows 2000 are ideal because they provide the flexibility to configure information assets easily. The integration across businesses leads to the efficiency advantages that a lot of businesses are seeing, and certainly our business has seen for some time. Over the past year, we've been working very closely with Microsoft and our customers to build a great experience base to prepare for this launch. We're rapidly implementing Windows 2000 internally across our own business.