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User favorites: Best products of the year

Ratings from our user survey:

Operating system User rating Dominance Index
Novell NetWare 1 (25% of 191 respondents) 1.5
Microsoft Windows NT Server 2 (23%) 0.7
IBM AIX 3 (17%) 1.2
SunSoft Solaris 4 (12%) 1

PC servers User rating Dominance Index
Compaq's ProLiant 1 (35% of 128 respondents) 1.1
IBM's NetFinity 2 (33%) 1.4
HP's NetServer 3 (13%) 0.8
Dell's PowerEdge 4 (11%) 0.7

Web server User rating Dominance index
IBM WebSphere 1 (32% of 121 respondents) 1.8
The Apache Group Apache Server 2 (27%) 1.1
Netscape Netra I 3 (14%) 1
Microsoft Site Server 4 (12%) 0.6

E-commerce platform User rating Dominance index
IBM Net.Commerce 1 (64% of 69 respondents) 1.3
Microsoft Site Server Commerce Edition 2 (18%) 0.8
Netscape CommerceXpert Suite 3 (11%) 0.8

Enterprise management system User rating Dominance index
Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager 1 (34% of 94 respondents) 1.6
HP OpenView 2 (27%) 0.8
Cabletron Spectrum Enterprise Manager 3 (16%) 1.4
Computer Associates Unicenter TNG 4 (10%) 0.9

SAN storage array User rating Dominance index
IBM Enterprise Storage Server 1 (49% of 63 respondents) 1.3
Compaq Enterprise Storage Array 2 (16%) 1.1
Sun StorEdge 3 (10%) 0.9

Firewall User rating Dominance index
Check Point's Firewall-1 1 (37% of 79 respondents) 1
Axent's Raptor 2 (20%) 1.2
Network Associates Gauntlet 2 (10%) 0.7

VPN gateway User rating Dominance index
Intel's LanRover VPN Gateway 1 (36% of 44 respondents) 1.1
Nortel's Contivity Extranet Switch 2 (23%) 0.9

Internet access User rating Dominance index
AT&T Global Network 1 (32% of 91 respondents) 1.5
UUNET 2 (24%) 1.2

Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches User rating Dominance index
Cisco's Catalyst 5500 1 (55% of 85 respondents) 1.1
Cabletron's SmartSwitch Router 8600 2 (18%) 1.4

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