RE: [WinMac] questions: NT vs. mac for small biz network
mark maytum(mark.maytum[at]pompy.com)
08 Jul 99 17:28:34 -0400
Reply to: RE: [WinMac] questions: NT vs. mac for small biz network
Well, my 2c:
We have almost exactly the same size network as you - 70 macs, 15 NT boxes....
I wouldn't want to have to pick *one* server platform for both macs & pcs. We run both ASIP/AEFW and NT servers. It's the combination of servers that allow the respective clients to work well together. PC's would be second class citizens on our network without a PDC & roaming user profiles. Macs would lose a lot of their functionality without an AtEase/AppleShare server.
However, I should mention that our marketing and graphics depts. are 100% mac, I don't really have to futz with xplatform issues there. Other than that, we use FileMaker, GreatPlains Dynamics, Office 97/98, and LotusNotes. Haven't had any showstopping issues with any of them. No matter what computer you sit down at, you've got all your stuff - and the applications all look alike too.
We've just started evaluating OSX Server and it *does* look pretty cool. Maybe others will chime in about this. Personally, I want to know more UNIX before I start relying on the thing.
But if you're going to install a new network, you'll have *plenty* to do before you even get down to setting up servers :-)
HTH
Mark Maytum
Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation
tom lyczko wrote:
>hello everyone...
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>please, i'm interested in information, but i also welcome opinions as well...
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>i work for a small company which is 60-70 mac, the rest windows...
>they want to upgrade to an ethernet LAN, and they want to ensure that they >can maintain their mac files' *integrity* (i.e. not get messed up in >cross-platform file problems) in terms of getting documents ready for a professional printer, etc.
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>1. methinks that the type of network (NT or mac) should not affect this >kind of thing at all, so long as tcp/ip is used in the lan over ethernet. am i correct???
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>2. my boss thinks NT is very complicated; he seems to want mac OS X bec >it's supposedly stable...my question is whether all the unix etc. stuff stuck into >mac OS X isn't equally complicated as NT????
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>3. lastly, have you found it easier to have mac clients on a NT lan or have >you found it easier to have NT/Win 9x clients on a mac lan??
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>i do think that for a say, 10-15 node LAN, NT might be cheaper overall, >given apple's tendency to charge premium prices for everything...
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>thank you!!!
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>:) tom
>tom@visualwave.com
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>p.s. when i know more about all this stuff, hopefully i will also be able >to offer advice, suggestions, ideas, etc. this is a good list! :)
>
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