If you were to install a new museum-wide LAN, would you go with Windows NT or Windows 3.x on Novell? Assume 60 users. All users would run Word, Excel, a messaging & scheduling package such as GroupWise, have limited access to the accounting system (which is possibly a Windows system such as Great Plains Dynamics or Solomon IV), and have internet access. Workgroups and their database applications are the standard lot: accounting, development and membership, collections and exhibitions, education (a class registration database), museum store and mail order, and admissions. Currently we are a hodgepodge of operating systems and applications. We want to trash the accounting system and the dev/mem system asap, and then migrate the other workgroups to the LAN later, as funds allow. We seek a stable OS with minimum maintenance but with a future. We are spoiled by UNIX, which we run our accounting package on. The accounting package is very old but UNIX is very stable and trouble-free. We have no in-house MIS staff and hope to continue without computer specialists. We rule-out UNIX because we want Windows and museum-wide file sharing and communications. We rule-out OS2 because developers are slow to support it and it seems doomed. So, Windows NT or Win/Novell? Or ...? Thanks. (Will also post to mcn-l as soon as I get my subscribe to take!) Steve Rooney International Center of Photography New York City phone 212 860-1777 ext 130 fax 212 360-6490 [log in to unmask]