Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:10:49 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Internet Book Gives The Mac a Nod

Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better

This tidbit is from:

Darius Garsys

My submarines' last underway (just back) I read Vince Emery's "How to 
Grow Your Business on the Internet." (great book, lots of good info.) Of 
interest, the few places any comparison is made between OS's, the Mac 
comes out ahead: (page #'s from 3d ed.) pg. 48, on what computer to use 
for access: "Macintosh internet applications are the easiest to set up 
and maintain, and the most secure, but many system administrators are 
unfamiliar with Macs." pg. 61 Notes that Mac LAN to Email gateways are 
far cheaper, more stable than the "other" kind.
pg. 386, on web servers: "Webstar for the Mac takes about three hours to 
get your pages online (no, really), the Windows NT servers take about 40 
hours, and Unix servers take between 20 and 60 hours, depending on which 
version of Unix you use..."

These are by someone who (as far as I can tell) is not really a pro-mac 
person, but merely giving an unbiased account of options for businesses 
to use getting on the web.
__________________________
Digital Guy Sez:

Three *hours*? Even with Installing Interaction to run the message forums 
it only took me 30 *minutes* to get the site up and running "live" on the 
'Net. Okay, so maybe he was assuming that people would stop to read the 
documentation first. ;-)