Re: Thank you.


Subject: Re: Thank you.
From: Jason Quigley (jasonq@mac.com)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 12:25:04 EDT


This would be a shame as, IMHO, Appleshare (from a client perspective) is
far superior to anything that *nix has to offer in terms of ease of use,
setup and security. I really like using FreeBSD, so I'm not slamming *nix.

Cheers,
Jason.

On 9/5/01 4:55 PM, "Ryan McBeth" <rmcbeth@mobiusnm.com> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> IMHO, there *won't* be much use for netatalk after a few
> years. Not next year, but probably by 2003. Yes, some schools will
> still be running old Macs and they will run Netatalk, heck, some
> schools are probably still running Apple ][e's.
> Don't forget that OS X isn't like another revision of Mac OS.
> There wasn't really that much change between versions of 8 and 9.
> But the difference between OS 9 and OS X is huge. I can give you one
> possibility. All Adobe would have to do is say that the next version
> of Photoshop will only run on OS X, and you are going to see a heck
> of a lot of new hardware being bought. All that hardware is going to
> come pre-loaded with Mac OS X.
>
> Netatalk will go the way of Procom or PKzip: Utilities that
> were great for the problem at hand, but were rendered less prominant
> because of changing technology. Heck, the netatalk developers have
> made my life easier. The next time one of you is in Philadelphia,
> drop me a line. I'll buy you a beer.
>



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