What are some concerns when buying an operating system?

Answer 1

First off, books have been written on this topic, so don't look for any of them. Now, are you buying for a home system, are you buying for a small office, or, and I seriously doubt that you are buying for a large company. Either way ,here we go. Considerations: 1) How many users. 1,10,100,1000? 2) Will you be setting up a network? 3) Will you be utilizing an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) 4) If setting up a network, will it be Peer-to-Peer network or will it be a network that is controlled by a Primary Domain Controller. With just these four question asked, you should now be thinking of finding some books on this topic. All is not lost yet. For a home system - single user system your best bet would be probably be the most popular brand OS like (xp home edition) or the xp-professional if you want something that's little more powerful. In a small office environment you may want to look at 2000 professional and 2000 professional server for (rdbms) or the 2003 server. These are system that will allow a mixture of xp machines and 98 machines. You will note with interest that these are all Ms systems. Now there are other OS's you may want to look at but Such as Unix, MacIntosh, Linux etc that I don't know much about. I hope this gives you an idea as to what it is exactly you are trying to put together. First off, books have been written on this topic, so don't look for any of them. Now, are you buying for a home system, are you buying for a small office, or, and I seriously doubt that you are buying for a large company. Either way ,here we go. Considerations: 1) How many users. 1,10,100,1000? 2) Will you be setting up a network? 3) Will you be utilizing an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) 4) If setting up a network, will it be Peer-to-Peer network or will it be a network that is controlled by a Primary Domain Controller. With just these four question asked, you should now be thinking of finding some books on this topic. All is not lost yet. For a home system - single user system your best bet would be probably be the most popular brand OS like (xp home edition) or the xp-professional if you want something that's little more powerful. In a small office environment you may want to look at 2000 professional and 2000 professional server for (rdbms) or the 2003 server. These are system that will allow a mixture of xp machines and 98 machines. You will note with interest that these are all Ms systems. Now there are other OS's you may want to look at but Such as Unix, MacIntosh, Linus etc that I don't know much about. I hope this gives you an idea as to what it is exactly you are trying to put together.