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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (56864)	3/26/2001 12:26:36 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

ROTFL! You are jokng, right? Isn't this the same fantasy that Macophiles have been spewing for over a decade? No. I've never heard ANYBODY, Macophile or no, who thought that a pre-OS X Macintosh was a viable Internet server. OS X is the first real Unix Mac (not counting the old A/UX or UNIX Mac front-end). It's a full BSD UNIX, with an Apache server, a sendmail server, a DNS server, a QuickTime streaming server, and everything else you need to run a full Internet server, whether on a desktop or on a multiprocessor server box. The only big difference between a Mac server and another UNIX server is the Mac user interface. I don't claim to know what the future holds, but I definitely wouldn't bet against Mac OS X in the web server space. Dave

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (56864)	3/26/2001 5:29:43 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Mac OS X is a very serious contender in the field. It's very much FreeBSD at the bottom and very much user friendliness at the top. It's the best from Linux combined with the best from Mac OS 9. I wouldn't wonder if I would invest in my first Macintosh hardware EVER within the next couple of years. But when it comes to internet servers, I believe that the number of home-PCs that are web-servers will increase dramatically as ADSL grows, and after that, the black-box devices will take over web-serving. Like the Linux-based axis.com webcams. Lars.