RE: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.

[Korhel Shawn]

One question, if I may...? 


If Mac is laggin behind a puffin and a raspin because the PC market is now

stealing it's only lifeblood left (graphics), then why is 78% of the

internet still designed on Mac platforms (1999 statistic)?  And to further

back Wayne, why is our Military, starting with the Army,  switching it's

entire base of PC servers to Mac for better security? Is that notorious

'They said' responisble here? 


I don't even use Mac (Intergraph 400 MHz dual processor) but, in using them

occasionally and based on my cross platform experience,  I believe they've

been WAY ahead of the game when it comes to making hardware/software work

with streamlined precision..    


-----Original Message-----

From: Wayne Townsend [

waynetabsolute [dot] net (mailto:waynetabsolute [dot] net)

]

Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 12:46 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: IE 5.5 Beta-- Man its fast.



Hi John,


>

>It's just that I have been slowly making my way from the

>Graphic Design side of the house to the

>Backend Design side of the house and there are

>several more varieties of tools for backend programming

>for the PC than there is for the Mac.



Hold on there, John...


Actually, the Mac has a server cgi authoring tool that blows away 

anything in the PC area by far.  It's called Flamethrower, and is 

based on Supercard and the Supertalk language, which has been around 

since '88 and has a *cult* following.  Lingo itself is *ahem* is very 

similar to the Supertalk language, which was on the market years 

earlier.  John Gay himself, the father of Flash, came from the 

development group that developed Supertalk (Silicon Beach).  The good 

news is that the language is english-based in its syntax, and 

therefore easy to learn by novices.  Far easier and faster to develop 

with than Perl or C. With this tool, you don't have to know much 

about how servers work in order to write server apps.


So, bottom line is, anyone wanting to develop comprehensive custom 

server apps, should consider this incredibly capable and easy to use 

program.  I'll never write another CGI in perl or C again, anymore 

than I'll ever build another website in html.  Flamethrower is the 

Flash of the server world, IMHO.


As far as servers themselves go, Apple currently has a clear 

advantage. The G4 macs are simply faster than Sun and NT servers. 

There are ISPs that have both, and will confirm that for anyone who 

doubts it.  For example, here's a quote from another commercial 

software developer who has both...  (In reference to a large 

computing project (SETI))

>Glad to see these Mac's are cooking the Dual PII 400's running NT I got

helping Team SC. The best they can do is 11 hrs and change and that's 

with 800 MHz of pure Intel power!

( from Steve MacLean, MadMan Software

stevemadmansoft [dot] com (mailto:stevemadmansoft [dot] com)

 )


Also, FWIW, quoting New Media Magazine, "The Mac outperformed both 

Sun and NT boxes... the mac served over three times more pages than 

the Sun, and over seven times the NT".


I can confirm this in the real world too, since I've worked in 

environments with all three for years.  I don't care what name is on 

the box, I just want reliability, performance, and ease of 

administration.  What shocked me most though was how good the little 

iMacs are as servers.


Macs also run UNIX Apache server software, which is the most popular 

server software in the world by far.  That's what I use.  Apache is 

on all variety of server platforms, but the mac version has a nice 

front-end interface that makes it painless to administrate - no unix 

to learn.


You can find out about Flamethrower at http://www.SolutionsEtcetera.com/

And UXIX Apache for the Mac (WebTen) at http://www.tenon.com


Authoring environments are one thing, and we all have our favorite 

platform, but web developers should stay platform independent in 

their thinking when it comes to back-end, and just go for what 

performs the best for their audience.


ATB,


/wayne


Wayne Townsend

waynetaccesson [dot] net

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waynetabsolute [dot] net

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