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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Weird, then, that in the corporate world they have doing pretty much nothing else for those 30 years. It doesn't seem to bother them much.
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No, it's specific kinds of servers and applications that work. Even then if two people try to use something like Excel or Word in Office 2003 only the first person can edit. The 2nd gets a read only copy.
Databases for multi-user or networks need a server, so direct use of Access using the LAN would be a disaster but the free version of MS-SQL, the MSDE, would be fine.
I installed and maintained this sort of stuff as the day job with NT Servers and NT Workstations. Usually the first thing we had to do in many offices was turn off file and print sharing on all PCs and make sure it was only on a computer dedicated as a server, even if not NT Server / Server 2003 etc.
Also no NAS or Linux or any other network sharing is quite the same as an MS Server.