World class UNIX operating system.Industry leading designs.Xsan, XRaid, Xservers, etc.They have just begun their inroadsinto the Enterprise.It starts with Leopard's release and certification into the Fed/DoD.
IT will respond with: there aren't site licenses for OS X, there aren't bulk discounts on hardware, and there isn't enterprise level same-day support and replacement.
It would probably be FileMaker (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple) that would develop such a product, and with several ERP vendors going more and more web-based, I fail to see the incentive for Apple to throw a lot of resources at that... The point is not to create another IBM, but to move towards open standards so we can have healthy competition.
As someone who actually administers an XServe in a school environment, I have to agree with ThinkFr33ly, though my concerns about OS X Server aren't about performance. It's about user management, or lack thereof. If you actually want to know about this, check pages 147 and 205 of the User Management PDF located at www.apple.com/server/documentation.also, sniperGX1, i believe the biggest point of those articles was to illustrate OS X has serious kernel performance issues. Y'know, the thing that schedules cpu time for all those servers? Haven't heard if things have improved since the article, but it's still a hacked up bastard of Mach, which was slow to begin with.oh well, it's digg. whatever.
tyrioneAug 10, 2007
World class UNIX operating system.Industry leading designs.Xsan, XRaid, Xservers, etc.They have just begun their inroadsinto the Enterprise.It starts with Leopard's release and certification into the Fed/DoD.
prockcoreAug 10, 2007
IT will respond with: there aren't site licenses for OS X, there aren't bulk discounts on hardware, and there isn't enterprise level same-day support and replacement.
wiseweaselAug 10, 2007
It would probably be FileMaker (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple) that would develop such a product, and with several ERP vendors going more and more web-based, I fail to see the incentive for Apple to throw a lot of resources at that... The point is not to create another IBM, but to move towards open standards so we can have healthy competition.
wiseweaselAug 10, 2007
Hate to break it to you, but that's how most companies operate...
vermifaxAug 11, 2007
Hit the highway. Please. Now.
madhahaAug 11, 2007
Dugg down because the line must be drawn here!
decoherenceAug 11, 2007
As someone who actually administers an XServe in a school environment, I have to agree with ThinkFr33ly, though my concerns about OS X Server aren't about performance. It's about user management, or lack thereof. If you actually want to know about this, check pages 147 and 205 of the User Management PDF located at www.apple.com/server/documentation.also, sniperGX1, i believe the biggest point of those articles was to illustrate OS X has serious kernel performance issues. Y'know, the thing that schedules cpu time for all those servers? Haven't heard if things have improved since the article, but it's still a hacked up bastard of Mach, which was slow to begin with.oh well, it's digg. whatever.
ccmachinedAug 13, 2007
haha rofl nice one