The introduction of the IBM Personal Computer in January 1980 has been the key to fueling today's technology boom.  For the first time individual PC's were able to run tasks independent of a mainframe for data processing.  This enabled users to do tasks whenever they wanted
without the substantial costs associated with a host-processing environment.  Soon word processors, spreadsheets and database management systems appeared on these new desktops giving practically the full power of a mainframe system but with a fraction of the cost and complexity. 

As the 1980's progressed, PC's and their applications continued to mature.  It was then realized that there was a few important elements missing from the IBM "Big Blue" Mainframe environment.  The two most common elements desired were data sharing and data security.  It was time for the PC to grow again and offer connectivity.  From this need arose the NOS (Network Operating System).  Early NOS vendor Novell came to market with a product called Novell NetWare that quickly became the product to beat.  This allowed groups of computers to share data that previously had to be manually swapped from one computer to the next by floppy-disk.

Entering the 1990's the computer community once again grew restless with the work their PC's provided them.  Two technologies debuted to address some of the newly created demand.  Client/Server and groupware were created to address these new demands. Client/Server was a step towards emulating mainframe systems large backend processors.  The idea is two-fold, one is to avoid sending large packets of data over local area networks which would severely affect network performance, the second consideration was to lower the burden on the desktop processor and centralize it on a massive Network Server which offers more security and performance.  Groupware was the next in workgroup collaboration software.  The goal was to be able to better allow groups of people to simultaneously work on the same project thereby increasing productivity and cutting down project life-cycles.

Mid 1990's saw the Internet's influence on the world of computing.  Suddenly the rush was on to offer Internet related services of all shapes, sizes and colors.  PC's and NOS's were quickly modified to perform these newly desired functions.  Web browsing and e-mail clients
for the desktop software, web site hosting and e-mail serving on the NOS backend.  This was the dawn of something great that is still being developed today.  The specter of what the Internet enabled society will yield has yet to be fully realized.

Leghorn Computing has been involved in all of the steps mentioned above.  Whether your needs are installation, configuration, troubleshooting or monitoring, LHC has all the experience necessary to deploy any and all of the networking technologies that have been discussed.  LHC has certifications such as Network+, CNA, CNE, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE and CCNA certifications.  Take those certifications and reinforce them with ten years of professional networking experience and you have a skill-set that is not easily reproduced elsewhere.

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