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To: rhet0ric who wrote (8762)	2/25/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: GS_Wall Street	Respond to of 213173

Just my two cents the last two compaines I worked for was totally Wintel shops everyone was networked together and there were consent problems with the Wintels. We had 2 full time people to support the network at one company with 120 employees and 5 full time people to support the network for 1000 employees. In both companies the tech writers all used MACs and no one in IS complained or ever said anything about not supporting them or anyone elses. Engineering was using a combination of Sun, Dec and SGI workstations for high end tasks. I do not know what servers where being used to drive the main network, actually both compaies switched from VAX servers to servers? running Oracle. The point is, IS had to support a number of different systems, so throwing in a MAC hear and there was not an issue as long as the task you were conducting was justifed.

To: rhet0ric who wrote (8762)	2/25/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

<< what someone said about Macs making good servers. They don't.>> I've always heard great things said about Apple web servers particularly in reference to Star Nine's WebStar server software. Up until this year, the server had been billed as "unhackable". I still have not heard any disclosures on how it was done. But I suspect Star Nine's coders are busily modifying the code to regain that unhackable status. A 15 year title is not something you just walk away from. The Mac Hacke site claims to have been visited by the likes of Micrososft and various departments of defense to investigate this property of the Mac as an internet server. (Mac Hacke -I think that's how they spelled it- reluctantly gave the prize money out to the lucky hacker when they broke into the system under strict criteria.) Any machine can be crashed by a hacker, but the Mac's grace is the ability to resist outside attempts to seize control by a remote hacker. -Bill_H