http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-10-1996/graphs/general/Primary_Computing_Platform.html "For the third straight survey, over half of the respondents (65.91%) use some flavor of Windows (3.1, 95, or NT) as their primary computing platform. (Most notably, the percentage of those using Win95 has increased from 28.5% in the Fifth to 42.9% in the Sixth.) This percentage is up strongly from the Fifth Survey (58.6%) as well as the Third Survey (61.5%). The remaining users are mainly Apple users (25.85%). The strong presence of Apple users is most likely a result of heavy use of the Internet within educational setting, an area where Apple has traditionally strong marketshare. The other operating systems of the world (UNIX, VMS, etc.) are used by less than 5% of the respondents each. In GVU's First WWW User Survey, conducted January of 1994, over 90% of the users reported UNIX as their primary computing platform!"

SMS Customization Microsoft SQL Server - SMS uses Microsoft's SQL SErver to store inventory, events and configuration details. SMS has a utility called SMSVIEW that creats "friendly" versions of SMS tables with these tools. SMS SErver 1.1 also provides a ocopy of Crystal Reports software to help create reports from your SMS data. DMTF MIF compatibility - The Desktop Magement Task Force (DMTF) was orginated to develop a standard for the management of hardware and software on the desktop. The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is a DMTF specification. SMS Server is compatible with version 4.5 of the DMI spec. The SMS MIF parser accepts any valid MIF that complies with v. 4.5 (although SMS does not use some of the fields defined and modifies some field datatypes). SMS also allows the client computer user to complete a form with the MIF entry program and passes this data back to the central database. SMS SDK (software development kit) - The separately purchased SDK enbales programmers to write cutsom code to manage SMS by calling the SMS functions that are provided through the SMS DLLs. SNMP Support - SMS communicates twith the Windows NT Simple Network Management Protocol service to allow third party SNMP apps to manage SMS, such as IBMs Netview.

Ooops, wrong topic for the above post. See topic 14.