:OS Roundup: Apple, Out of Touch With Server Room Needs
OS Roundup: Apple, Out of Touch With Server Room Needs Jul 30, 2008, 19 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6275 reads) (Other stories by Paul Rubens)
"Perhaps I am being unfair. After all, Microsoft makes toys too, and plenty of enterprises run their businesses using its server OSes. Just under 40 percent of all server spending was on Windows-based servers in the first quarter of 2008, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Yet Microsoft also makes the Zune, for example, as well as the legendary Microsoft Barney.
"So why shouldn't enterprises take Apple seriously? Here's the problem: It can't walk and chew gum at the same time."
