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The big Unix war is Apple's BSD/Darwin vs Linux. Can linux exploit its foothold on the desktop? Can Apple subsidize it's way into the server room?
by tosseraccount 15y ago
The big Unix war is Apple's BSD/Darwin vs Linux. Can linux exploit its foothold on the desktop? Can Apple subsidize it's way into the server room?
- debacle 15y agoDoes Apple want to be in the server room? Can Apple make money in the server room? I think the answer to both of those questions is probably no.
- sp332 15y agoApple made a serious bid in the server space before, but it seems dead now. Remember the Xserve? http://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/hardware.html http://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/hardware.html
- sophacles 15y agoMy understanding of Xserve was that it was less "server space" and more back-office. I know the back office runs on servers, but server-space makes me think of racks of machines in a big server room or data center. I always felt Xserve was just targeting small offices (design companies and the like) that were already apple shops, rather than serious "grown up" servers.
- sp332 15y agoYou may be right in general, but I remember they made a big deal about large server clusters and big-iron, bioinformatics stuff for a while.
- elsurudo 15y agoI don't know about that. Looking at Lion Server, it's like they're barely trying on the server front. I don't think it's a measurable part of their current strategy...
- 286c8cb04bda 15y agoApple has effectively abandoned[1] the server room. All of the 'Enterprise' features of iOS require Microsoft Exchange[2]. For the plebeians, they make of point of supporting what ever is most popular: The email setup has custom paths for Gmail and AOL. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve [2]: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pdf http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Gu...