[WinMac] Re: Case Color (was: Email Choices)

Dean Suhr(deansuhr[at]easystreet.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:06:21 -0800

I "ran" the BackOffice Small Business (Exchange) NT4 server at a small,
22 user company. I donšt care how good the hardware is (Dell high end
server) ... you can have problems with any of it. And the software was
definitely overkill. I'm not sure if at 60 people the software overhead
overcomes the service advantage or not -- frankly I don't want to find
out.

On the other side of the office I ran a Mac based list server on my
persoanl desktop no frills Power Computing clone machine for well over a
year with no problems or maintenance issues. In fact, I had the NT
server forward all of my incoming e-mail back to my ISP and into my
personal account since the NT server was so unreliable, and it seemed
that when we needed most to send or receive e-mail was when the server
was down - the Mac saved the day many times.

I used Dave to connect to the network to access shared drives and network
printers with no problems there.

So when I started my own Internet Information business in January with
investor's cash - what did I do? Didn't buy new Intel based hardware -
just kept on using the old faithful Mac hardware.

By the way ... I haven't figured out how the color or look of the case
affects performance.

Just my 2 cents,
Dean

>>>>> On 3/23/99 5:56 AM, Daniel L. Schwartz wrote... <<<<<

> However, I kind of agree with your Novell jock about ASIP 6.x [and OS-X],
>but for another reason: The lack of robust hardware. The Mac evangelists
>will be screaming and jumping up & down, but there is NO COMPARISON between
>a toy plastic blue & white Mac and a ProLiant. Say what you want about x86,
>but the commercial servers from IBM and Compaq ARE rugged and reliable...
>Something that Apple's industrial design staff seems to have overlooked to
>produce a "cool looking" package. [I say this as I'm looking at my IBM
>IntelliStation Z Pro workstation and making a mental comparison to the guts
>of a blue & white G3 Mac...]

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