That meant Lochead had to track and update the different versions of add-on tools to make sure they were compatible with the latest release of the operating system itself. When Microsoft releases a service pack for Windows 2000, it addresses everything. Out of many, one The technologies Microsoft has brought together in Windows 2000 have existed, and been evolving, for years. These standards continue to serve as key foundations for connectivity services in Windows 2000, as well as Microsoft's .NET initiative, which was created to allow applications and devices to interoperate over the Web. MSMQ provides guaranteed delivery of messages among applications despite intermittent failures in servers or in the networks connecting them.
Services enables greater performance, reliability and usability across the board.
Lochhead reports that a single Windows 2000 server can handle more than 100,000 user sessions per day and thousands of simultaneous connections. In recent tests by the Transaction Processing Council, Windows 2000 running on Compaq ProLiant servers captured five of the top ten rankings for absolute throughput. IIS 5.0, for example, now boasts a feature called Rapid Restart, under which the Web server can be brought back online in less than 800 milliseconds after a crash, Fort claims. This flexibility is important because some applications, such as transaction monitors handling credit card authorizations, must perform more reliably than, say, sales analysis applications. The trade-off is that, in general, the more protected an application is from crashes, the slower it will run.