Macintosh
Over the past few years it has become alternately sport and fashion to say
the "Mac is dead" and "Apple is through" These predictions have been
going on since 1984 when Apple introduced the Macintosh. The Apple Macintosh
is still here and arguably still setting the pace for personal computers.
At Webfarm, we try to avoid the religious wars over which operating systems
are best and what is horrible about the others. We use a wide range of operating
systems and the only rule about what we can use is that it has to be able to
do the job. Since the mid eighties, the Macintosh has been a good choice for
reliable, easy to use, powerful personal computing. Macs were not built as multi-user
machines, but they had some of the earliest and easiest networking support in
personal computers. The Mac has been at home on the Internet for a long time.
Among the interesting technologies available on the Mac are:
- QuickTime
- QuickTime is a multimedia framework that is incredibly flexible and extensible.
QuickTime handles streaming media well and is part of the underpinnings of
various professional video editing solutions.
- MultiLingual Support
- Macs have long been at home with international character sets and the use
of resource forks makes localization of applications very straightforward.
- WebObjects
- WebObjects is one of the application servers that have been around since
before the category "Application Server" became a buzzword. WebObjects
is built on mature application development frameworks and some incredibly
elegant object-relational technology for accessing data objects.
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