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Didnt they already try this and it was a huge failure
by short12 5y ago
Didnt they already try this and it was a huge failure
- zeusk 5y agoWho remembers xserve?
- ryanjkirk 5y agoand XSAN <shudder/>
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- pxc 5y agoWhat was wrong with XSAN?
- TimTheTinker 5y agoI cried a tear or two when they deprecated it. Apple can do enterprise hardware... just because Linux and x86 hardware became commoditized doesn't mean there isn't room for further innovation. I think Apple should come out with an M1 Enterprise chip and a line of data center/server hardware to compete with Oxide. As for an OS, why not hire Hector Martin and adopt a particular flavor of Linux (maybe partner with Red Hat)?
- NovaS1X 5y agoAn LDAP offering that competes with AD and integrates with OSX would be gigantic. I work in VFX where 95% of our hardware runs Linux, our laptops all Apple, and the only Windows machines being the accounting department, yet we still use AD for directory services because there's simply nobody else that offers a product even half as good, and OSX doesn't even like working with AD anyway. A product that could even compete with half of what AD offers and could manage OSX devices would be pretty incredible.
- lukeh 5y agoWell, they won’t use Samba (which has a very well featured domain controller implementation), because of the GPL. The only other one going around is the one I wrote, but Novell bought that, not Apple. (Apple wasn’t so interested in the enterprise space circa 2006.) But anyway, AD will become much less relevant in the future as everything moves to the cloud, a la Azure AD.
- newsclues 5y agoApple has had success in certain sectors of industry: the creative space being a large focus where they had success often in spite of being Apple
- hhaha88 5y agoI’ve been backing up and restoring my personal phone, and managing family gadgets that way for a while. This is a reskin of an existing Apple iCloud infrastructure project.