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Huffman Operating Systems

Memo
To: Huffman Trucking Execs
From: Abram LaBelle
Date: March 10, 2008
Re: Huffman Trucking Operating Systems
Huffman Trucking is a national trucking firm with offices in California, Missouri, New Jersey and Ohio. Most of the systems in the offices as well as in the plants are Windows based, using Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000 servers; Windows 3.x, Windows 9.x, Win 2K and Win XP Pro Operating systems; Microsoft Exchange and IIS. The Missouri office uses a mixed windows and Macintosh environment on a Novell server. The mixed environment also uses a Lotus Notes rather than Microsoft exchange for email. The New Jersey office uses a thick net client environment. Bar code scanners are available in the plants in Missouri and Ohio (University of Phoenix, 2005). The overall operating systems architecture does not have standardization between the sites. The company has two main operating systems at the Missouri and Ohio locations where the systems architecture in both locations is the same and the same for the systems architecture of the New Jersey and California locations.
The company maintains database records of important information, which include driver information, driving logs, driver-moving violations, parts inventory purchases, parts inventory used, parts catalogues, parts purchasing history, vendors, vehicle maintenance, tire maintenance, maintenance descriptions, vehicle types, vehicle details, and maintenance work orders (Huffman Trucking, 2005).

California Operating System
This system is constructed on a bus network topology which connects each computer (nodes) to a single segment trunk (a communication line) of CAT 3 wiring (Ethernet).

Hardware configuration:
• CPU: 133MHz or faster Pentium-compatible
• RAM: 256MB minimum
• HD: 2GB with a minimum of 1GB free

One potential reason this operating system was chosen could have been due to the ability to easily connect additional computers and peripherals to this type of network....