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I'm wondering who the CTO is at these companies that allowed IT to go with Apple servers. I'm not hating on Apple, I'm just saying that when you think "corporat
by hvs 16y ago
I'm wondering who the CTO is at these companies that allowed IT to go with Apple servers. I'm not hating on Apple, I'm just saying that when you think "corporate IT" do you think "Apple"? The last type of company that you want to work with in IT is one that has a nasty habit of surprising its customers every 6 months. You want a big, dependable, boring company.
- protomyth 16y agoIf you do media in a big corp, the Xserve was a pretty good box for that side. It also (up until Windows 7) made a pretty good box for a mixed educational environment. My biggest problem with OS X Server isn't the loss of the Xserve, it is the old Samba.
- tedunangst 16y agoThey were hardly large deployments. It's telling that their enterprise customer quote was from the "IT director at Washingtonian.com, which runs two Xserves to support a website".