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To: Steve Martin who wrote (23706)	3/29/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Apple OS Could Win Some IT Hearts. >"It's a very stable system. The G3 servers never go down. The thing has never crashed," said Peter Visel, information systems manager at Santa Cruz Biotechnology. Visel manages a network of three Apple servers, about 130 Macintosh clients, and several PC servers running Windows NT-the latter of which he said "need a lot of babying." Santa Cruz Biotechnology is evaluating the new Mac OS X, released early this month. One feature Visel said he finds highly tempting is the ability to configure multiple Macs using a single image configured on the server, and to boot the Macs off the server. "We can throw out the hard drives. In effect, you only have one disk to deal with," Visel said.< techweb.com

To: Steve Martin who wrote (23706)	3/29/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: sally duros	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

"Sure, Apple has DVD-ROM drives. The problem is that all these DVD's with PC features have Wintel executables that you can't run on a Mac. I have yet to find a "Mac friendly" DVD with DVD-ROM supplements other than a few that just had Adobe PDF files with scripts, etc." Thanks for the reply, Steve. How do you see this. I see this as a BIG problem in the future as DVDs achieve dominance in the home entertainment market. I don't understand how the people who first sold AVID editing system bundled on a home computer have overlooked this. Do you know whether they have formed an alliance with any of the DVD producers, distributors etc. to develop a format that works on their MAC architecture?

To: Steve Martin who wrote (23706)	3/29/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

From TechWeb, "iMac Faces Corporate Challenge" techweb.com <<Snip>> The iMac succeeded because of its design, colors, and price, said Joe Ferlazzo, director of Technology Business Research, in Hampton, N.H. But going forward, it may also gain some performance enhancements that could appeal to corporate users, he said. Apple is expected by the end of the year to have access to new 1-gigabit PowerPC chips from its supplier, IBM. "Apple can start to position with the Mac OS X operating system for business and gain share against Wintel and then Unix," Ferlazzo said.