zdnet.com— Apple’s warming trend in the enterprise is about to get squashed: Microsoft’s new ReFS file system - due in Windows 8 Server - will be the
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In the enterprise, Apple isn't a threat to Microsoft. Linux is.
In the home, nobody decides "mac vs pc" based on which filesystem each supports. Nobody.
In reality even Linux is only a threat to MS for a few very specific roles. Apple isn't even a player in the server world. Their only "presence" in a vast majority of businesses, if they have any at all, is at the end user gadget level.
Love em or hate em, MS is a behemoth in the business world, and nobody has brought any real competition for many years.
Not sure why you're getting dugg down as that's exactly what's currently happening. There are a few small businesses that run purely Apple stuff, but when they killed the XServe, that was mostly the end as far as Apple goes in the Enterprise market. Big companies aren't going to buy Mac Minis or huge Mac Pros and unless Apple starts allowing OS X Server on machines not made by Apple (should happen right around the same time hell freezes over) that isn't going to change anytime soon.
i'm dugg down because people don't like what i said, not because it's untrue :)
as you said, when apple cancelled their own server line, they basically admitted they have no place in the server room (not that anyone was very surprised by this).
i think it would be interesting if something, anything could compete with MS in the server world, but so far nothing has.
scottkeefeFeb 8, 2012
No doubt there was some 'incentive' given to the author to write this drivel.
glonqFeb 8, 2012
This is thoroughly incompetent journalism.
In the enterprise, Apple isn't a threat to Microsoft. Linux is.
In the home, nobody decides "mac vs pc" based on which filesystem each supports. Nobody.
TomHanks4Feb 8, 2012
In reality even Linux is only a threat to MS for a few very specific roles. Apple isn't even a player in the server world. Their only "presence" in a vast majority of businesses, if they have any at all, is at the end user gadget level.
Love em or hate em, MS is a behemoth in the business world, and nobody has brought any real competition for many years.
macparrotFeb 9, 2012
Not sure why you're getting dugg down as that's exactly what's currently happening. There are a few small businesses that run purely Apple stuff, but when they killed the XServe, that was mostly the end as far as Apple goes in the Enterprise market. Big companies aren't going to buy Mac Minis or huge Mac Pros and unless Apple starts allowing OS X Server on machines not made by Apple (should happen right around the same time hell freezes over) that isn't going to change anytime soon.
TomHanks4Feb 9, 2012
i'm dugg down because people don't like what i said, not because it's untrue :)
as you said, when apple cancelled their own server line, they basically admitted they have no place in the server room (not that anyone was very surprised by this).
i think it would be interesting if something, anything could compete with MS in the server world, but so far nothing has.
macparrotFeb 9, 2012
Agreed. if you don't say what people want to hear, they will digg you down no matter if it's the truth or not.
And they call ME a fanboy
JollyMacFeb 8, 2012
Given Microsoft's history for incompatibility, and being a Mac/Linux user myself, sorry if I don't get too excited about this...
MadocComadrinFeb 8, 2012
*rubs eyes* Read the title as "Minecraft starts protecting your data."
Silliness aside: something that's going to replace NTFS eventually is a step forward in my book, regardless of who's accessing it from where.