Hamilton--Which Server Will Serve Best?

Before you hand over your cash to Bill Gates and Andy Grove, however, it's important to remember that the Internet is built on UNIX. Despite the gains made by NT, UNIX is clearly the performance leader, especially as network traffic increases, with scalability that is beyond the grasp of NT. That's one reason why many high-end prepress shops have stayed with UNIX (Crosfield, Hell, Scitex and Screen were all UNIX-based CEPS) for servers, while migrating to the Mac for clients. And while it requires greater technical expertise for admin, you get what you pay for in terms of features—and the stability of this OS is rock solid.