Server Operating Systems
Network / Server operating systems include MS Windows NT/2000/XP, Apple OS, UNIX, Linux, Solaris (Sun Microsytem’s version of Unix), Lynx, BeOS and Free BSD.
Microsoft:
Windows 2000 Server – File sharing, printer, business applications, web applications, Internet connection
Windows NT 4.0 – File sharing, printer, business applications, Web applications, Internet connection
Windows XP Professional – File sharing, Web server, Web applications, business applications
Windows .NET Standard Server – Web server
Windows .NET Enterprise Server
Windows .NET Datacenter Server
Windows Server 2003 – (64-bit operating system) Network, Web server, E-mail server; host 64-bit applications
Sun Microsystems
Solaris 9.0 – File sharing, business applications, database; supports Sun UltraSPARC and Intel microprocessors/
Red Hat
Linux Advanced Server File sharing, Web server
Linux Enterprise Server ES 2.1
SuSE
Linux Enterprise Server
Mandrake
Linux ProSuite 9.1
Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8 (Linux)
Novell – Netware
BeOS
FreeBSD
Apple
Mac OS X – File sharing, Web server (Apache HTTP is pre-installed), PHP support.
There are other versions of UNIX: AIX (IBM’s version), Tru64 (Compaq) and HP UX (Hewlett-Packard’s version). These are large enterprise, 64-bit / RISC platform operating systems. More recent upgrades of UNIX have improved to now offer a graphical interface compared to the command-line interface that was common to UNIX.
Linux Servers are very popular for web hosting and internet services by running Apache, Sendmail, PERL, CGI and FTP.
Windows Servers are popular for MSCP, MSCE, VisualBasic programs, Active Server Pages, SQL, DNS, IIS and MS Frontpage.