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To: BillHoo who wrote (8790)	2/25/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

I've always heard great things said about Apple web servers I'm sure they're very easy to use and, as you say, hard to hack. But the most important criteria for choosing a Web server are more likely things like network performance, scaleability, stability, and app support. The Mac, unfortunately, does very poorly in all of those categories when compared with UNIX or NT. When Steve took over, he dumped the Macs serving apple.com and reportedly switched to Solaris. That sums things up pretty well. Still, I suspect that Steve is very serious about the server market, since it's a central part of Apple becoming a player in NCs, on the Web, in the Enterprise, etc. So we'll see the hardware receiving constant upgrades, and ultimately they will run Rhapsody and a lot of high end UNIX apps that are fairly easy to port from other flavors. At that point, the Mac will be relegated to a client OS (which is the legit flipside of the bogus reports that Rhapsody will be a server OS only). rhet0ric