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

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:18:55 -0500

        Dear Dean,

        You nailed it when you wrote:

        "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."

        You also nailed it again when you wrote:

        "I "ran" the BackOffice Small Business (Exchange) NT4 server at a small,
22 user company."

        Let me repost from 2 1/2 hours ago my original criteria for considering an
Exchange server:

>Usually, I recommend starting to look at it with
>about 50 users, and considering it with about 100 users.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:06 AM 3/23/99 -0800, Dean wrote:
>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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