Thread: Set Up a Cross-Platform Network Easily

AS YOUR COMPANY grows and you add employees, computers, and an office to house them, you'll need to establish a network to connect your staffers to one another and to the Internet. At this point, however, maybe your startup crew uses a collection of Macs and PCs, with the graphics specialists favoring OS X, the software developers relying on the tools that come with Linux, and everybody else preferring Windows. Fortunately, the three operating systems can communicate and co-exist on a single network. By using suitable off-the-shelf equipment and the various operating systems' built-in tools, you can connect your heterogeneous hardware to ': the universe in short order.