Email Server Operating Systems (OSs) Brick

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Description

Email server operating systems (OSs) allocate system resources for the computers (servers) that run NIH's enterprise electronic mail applications.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
UNIX Win2000	Win2003
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
NT 4.0 (monitoring system)	Solaris (NCI, only mail)
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
NT 4.0 Solaris UNIX Win2000	Linux

NIH will be standardizing the back office servers during the consolidation process.
Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.