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Re: Upgrade path

Doug,

the older Mac OS 9/ASIP combinations have several problems. Many of them have been fixed with Mac OS 9.2.2 and ASIP 6.3.3. But the relay-problem in the mailserver will never be fixed, because ASIP is a dead product and out of development.
We have made the switch to Mac OS X Server with version 10.2.5 (now 10.2.6). Its a complete new world and i had to learn a lot of new things, but i would never go back. Performance is great and our servers dont crash. Performance of the mailserver should be better and it is missing some features. If I were you I would wait for 10.3 server (Panther) which will be released before the end of this year and has a better mailserver and than switch to X.
Your hardware is not the latest and greatest but still OK for X. Put in some more RAM (512 MB Minimum, more is better), because OS X is eating RAM for lunch and RAM is cheap today. :-)
A new harddisk is recommended as well. Todays disks are very cheap and much faster than the original disks supplied with your G4-PCI.
One of our servers is running on a G4/500 and it is doing a good job, but the new XServe is a lot faster, of course. It just depends on what you are doing...

Am Samstag, 06.09.03 um 07:00 Uhr schrieb email@hidden:

From: Doug <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: Upgrade path

Hi,
Was wondering if anyone would care to comment on the migration path I
would like to do,
since some of you have probably have been there.
Currently I'm running a small straight Apple network/server at one
location.
My server is an older G4 PowerMac PCL Graphic with only 10gb of space
and I'm running
out of it. Also am running OS9.0 and ASIP 6.3.0. Not much runs on the
server besides Retrospect
and a calandar program and our e-mail. I have few problems with this
current environment.
Anyway I'm trying to figure our a next step of upgrade.
Since the price of a new G4 is so low, I'm thinking of getting that
instead of putting more $'s into
the current one. With all the problems I've seen with ASIP I'm not sure
what software level I should
go to. Is OS 9.2.2 and ASIP 6.3.3 worth going to or go newer?
Everytime I upgrade software those that still cover 9.2.2 or less are
getting fewer and fewer.
Your comments would be appreciated.
Doug


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