Workstation vs. Server

<i><b>Originally posted by : Thomas Whalen (aspdev@dakota.net)</b></i><br />I have NT 4 Workstation. It seems that a lot of the components that are included with NT Server are not included with the Option Pack 4 for NT 4 Workstation. Is this true? <br /><br />I am not able to instantiate the CDO object for the CDONTS component, and can not use the Content Linker component. Is there any work-around in my situation? At this point I am not able to implement any functionality where the user can email me from my site, nor can I create links based on contents in a text file as easily as I could with the Content Linker component. Any help would be appreciated very much. <br /><br />Should I consider buying NT Server so that I can have these extra features, or upgrading my system and buying Windows 2000 (i have heard about the bugs in Windows Server 2000) so that I can get the full effect of ASP 3.0 ????<br /><br />Thank you in advance.

<i><b>Originally posted by : steve</b></i><br />workstation is meant for the basic stuff. option pak for nt 4 doesn't have the cdonts object. i'm not sure about the other components, been awhile since i researched it. Really depends on what your planning on going to. If it was me i'd just upgrade to win2k server. This really depends on how much your willing spend. Before you do anything check out microsoft.com and they have several details on this.<br /><br /><br /><br />------------<br />Thomas Whalen at 3/12/2000 12:37:57 PM<br /><br />I have NT 4 Workstation. It seems that a lot of the components that are included with NT Server are not included with the Option Pack 4 for NT 4 Workstation. Is this true? <br /><br />I am not able to instantiate the CDO object for the CDONTS component, and can not use the Content Linker component. Is there any work-around in my situation? At this point I am not able to implement any functionality where the user can email me from my site, nor can I create links based on contents in a text file as easily as I could with the Content Linker component. Any help would be appreciated very much. <br /><br />Should I consider buying NT Server so that I can have these extra features, or upgrading my system and buying Windows 2000 (i have heard about the bugs in Windows Server 2000) so that I can get the full effect of ASP 3.0 ????<br /><br />Thank you in advance.