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[Mauricio Sadicoff]

On Feb 22, 2004, at 2:59 PM, felix zaslavskiy wrote:

>>  I intend to get a powerbook G4 and network with my PC laptop
>> which I do development of PHP/CF/ASP sites currently.
>
> If your Intel laptop remains your dev environment why do you need a dev
> environment on MAC. Just install IE for mac, Safari and test to see how
> your web pages look on them.

Anyway, if you need to develop in the Mac, you should have no problems 
with PHP or CF. After all, MacOS X is unix, actually BSD and it comes 
pre-installed with Apache, PHP and mySQL. ColdFusion is a commercial 
software, so you have to pay for it, but it does have a Mac version. If 
you need to serve ASP, you can use iASP (http://www.halcyonsoft.com/).

IMHO, the Mac is now the best platform for web development, bar none. 
It runs the standard Unix software, has versions of everything that 
Wintel has, the colors actually match what you print and it's really 
beautiful to boot!

Then again, I write for a Macintosh magazine in Brazil, so I might be a 
tiny bit biased ;-)

Cheers,
Mauricio

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Mauricio L. Sadicoff            mlevy at hypersol.com
CEO / President
HyperSol LLC.                   http://www.hypersol.com


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