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> It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform. Indeed. Having wasted many a weekend trying to get OS X Server working with por
by leonroy 11y ago
> It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform.
Indeed. Having wasted many a weekend trying to get OS X Server working with portable homes, MCX preferences or the so called Golden Triangle of Active Directory and Open Directory I was left with the distinct impression that OS X Server is most definitely the most neglected product in the Apple stable.
I guess Steve Jobs' famous mantra, to say 'no' to a hundred things so Apple can say 'yes' to the one is very much apparent in this case. It's admirable in a way - that unlike Microsoft, Apple won't dogfood their server product if there's something which better meets their needs already out there.
- cmurf 11y agoA narrow vision. Eggs in one basket. But, Apple has used RHEL and Solaris in the recent past much more than OS X. So they weren't even eating their own dog food. I think what killed Server is the lack of hardware options. It was a goner even with the amazing Xserve. It was never going to be allowed on commodity hardware, Apple didn't sign on to Open Compute, and so on. So the writing was on the wall, and developers saw that.
- themartorana 11y agoWhich makes me sad because I have masochistic dreams of writing Objective-C for backends. And WebObjects aside, as I was writing iPhone apps and the ecosystem kept leveling up with GCD and ARC and the like, I always dreamed of having that power on the server-side. Also I love the language, but I'm of a dying breed with that...
- elsurudo 11y agoPretty sure you can run the ObjC runtime on Linux quite easily. You just won't have the Cocoa libraries. Foundation would be useful for sure, though.