Since migrating, the company has been able to add new machines into its racks with minimal cost and time, and to ramp from 10 million page views monthly to nearly 20 million per month. According to Jack Williams, the company's senior VP of Product Development and Technology, migration to the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system has brought greatly increased server stability, faster installation, increased performance speed, and simplified administration. The company has 138 employees. The company primarily uses Compaq hardware, with some IBM machines. The company has migrated 40 Web servers to Windows 2000, and will migrate its internal network later this year.
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Our competitive advantage hinges on the continuous availability of our entire site. Windows 2000 has helped us keep a high volume Web site up at a very low cost, in a very stable and efficient environment. What has most caught the attention of the company's 25 developers and site engineers is the tremendous improvement in stability in their production environment. Our experience shows that Windows 2000-based machines perform flawlessly under the most demanding conditions, which increases the overall positive perceptions of our site. One reason the company migrated to Windows 2000 Server from Windows NT was to take advantage of simplified, centralized administration.