Microsoft will market a desktop version and three server versions. Microsoft has gained momentum by integrating applications and the OS, bridging the once-dissimilar worlds of desktop and server. Typically, NT base workstations are less expensive than UNIX workstations. It includes a Printrak system that fully interfaces with GIS and incorporates features such as open query to allow police officers access to such databases as NCIC and the jail management system. Smart Security Security and privacy are important issues for government agencies.
Smart cards can provide identification, authentication and nonrepudiation for secure transactions.
Calif. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is conducting some pilots using Spyrus' PKI product, along with Netscape commercial Web products for secure access to Web site information for law enforcement. Telemedicine Yuma State Prison, in Yuma, Ariz., has installed telemedicine to reduce health-care costs and the risk of escape. The system has been in operation about a year and has performed over a hundred cases. The system is part of a statewide network directed by the University of Arizona's Health and Science Department. The system can connect to any type of electronic scope and allows users to scan in documents and X-rays.