As the Apple Turns: Scene 197: K&H: Intel Inside? (11/20/97)

K&H: Intel Inside? (11/20/97)

Could it be true? MacOS Rumors cautiously reveals that Apple may be planning to ship new servers next fall. Not a big deal, you say. But the Elite Apple Hush-Hush Squad has electric fences, razor wire, and big nasty dogs guarding the new server project from all angles, to the degree where the only things anyone knows about these machines is that they're code-named "Kestrel & Hawks" and that they'll cost about six grand. When was the last time you heard that little about any Apple project? So that very lack of info has led some to suspect that the K&H packs a surprise inside-- put there by a dancing lamé-clad clean-room engineer.

That's right: K&H may just be Apple's Intel-based Rhapsody server. Apple's strategy may be to forge inroads into the business world by selling RhapsIntel servers with a slew of PPC-based Mac NC clients. But if so, how will the Mac community react? Remember the backlash that hit Power Computing after they announced a similar strategy, though with NT instead of Rhapsody. Of course, many felt that their claims of trying to bolster the Mac client business by selling NT servers was just a front, and that they were planning on switching their products from Mac OS to Windows all along.

I suppose we'll know more about the K&H by next fall. In the meantime, AtAT is pleased to help spread wild and potentially damaging rumors.

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The above scene was taken from the 11/20/97 episode:

November 20, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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196: May We Be of Service? (11/20/97) If you own a PowerBase, PowerTower, PowerCenter, etc. and have been wondering what you're going to do for hardware technical support after the new year, your answer came today. In a press release, Power Computing announced that as of December 8th, the service provider DecisionOne will be the official long-term customer support company for Power's Mac OS customers (which includes the AtAT staff)...
198: More Flap Over Java (11/20/97) Just this past Monday, Internet Week reported that Netscape had removed the "Java Compatible" logo from its website, admitting that Communicator 4.04 is not actually fully compliant with Sun's spec. That sort of puts the kibosh on Microsoft's past strategy of saying that Sun was playing favorites by allowing Netscape to slack off on full Java compatibility, while suing Microsoft for the same thing. Well, on the same day, Sun filed a motion to force Microsoft to remove the very same logo from the latest version of Internet Explorer...

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