[X-HW] guidelines for switching to OSX

[Kevin Stevens]

On Oct 24, 2004, at 17:11, John wrote:

>> Kevin, I am not sure what smoke the network guys are blowing but will 
>> know more Nov. 2. The publisher thinks that upgrading will do away 
>> with AppleTalk and IPX (and has been told by the NW guys that those 
>> things are bad and holding the PC side of the network back). I am not 
>> a network person, so don't know exactly where they are coming from.
>
> Can't comment here, out PC tech guy wanted Appletalk dead (not sure 
> why).

It's a very chatty broadcast protocol, isn't supported at layer 2 by a 
lot of equipment, and doesn't scale well across enterprise LANs - much 
like Novell and NetBios (old Windows protocol).  I'm not surprised 
they're trying to standardise infrastructure on TCP/IP, there are many 
good reasons for doing so.  I just don't understand how going to OS X 
is going to accomplish that.  Both OS 8+ and OS X support TCP/IP, 
Novell, and AppleTalk AFAIK.

KeS