Riordan Manufacturing Upgrade

Riordan Manufacturing is a privately held company with plant operations in Albany, Georgia; Pontiac, Michigan; Hangzhou, China.   The Corporate Headquarters are located in San Jose, California.   Riordan Manufacturing is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries.   The Chief Operating Officer (COO) is Hugh McCauley and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is Dale Edgel.   The Company employs a work force of 550 people throughout the four locations.  
Corporate Headquarters in San Jose, California has recognized a growing need to upgrade the network operating system.   Riordan's current operating system is Windows NT 4.0.   The Chief Information Officer (CIO) Maria Trinh has asked the Manager of IT Services, Patricia Miller to assemble a team of IT Professionals to evaluate both Windows 2000 and 2003 as well as the LYNUX Operating System.   Based on this study she is to make her recommendations as to what operating systems will serve Riordan Manufacturing best.
                                                      Purpose of Project

Riordan Manufacturing is currently utilizing the Windows NT 4.0 operating system. Our team is evaluating the different Windows Servers to determine which system is best suited for the company. Currently, the team favors the Windows Server 2003. This server provides many services and features that make a valid case to management for recommendation to upgrade. Our team will have to submit a proposal once we have solidified our decision. The Windows 2003 Server has shown to be the fastest, reliable and secure Windows Server. Windows Servers 2003 integrates many powerful applications that are important to businesses that can improve efficiency (Microsoft, 2002, p.1).
                                            Areas of Business to be improved
§ Sharing Resources
1. Shared folders
2. Mapped drive is shared on the network by a file server or workstation
3. Print server
4. Software applications stored on server
§ Managing resources
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