Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link.
“I see recently, all these MAC advocates have totally become all
hyped up about OS X Server and being in the corporate world. The
market that Apple has opened itself up to is quite small actually.
It goes along with politics, legacy, and many other reasons. Just a
little background about OS X Server, this isn’t something that has
been totally explored by Apple. A while ago, they came out with
mkLinux which wasn’t based off the linux kernel, but mkLinux and it
ran on low end Mac’s running Linux server services due to the open
source movement. Now Apple has released a similar product, and in
my opinion, it’s just not enough.”
“If you look at market share, where exactly would OS X Server
fit in? The corporate world? I highly doubt that. Most system
administrators are old school Unix admins and basically Apple has
no reputation, legacy, or anything of the sort. If you go into a
corporate building’s data center, chances are, everything is in the
standard 19″ rackmount cases. You have your Compaq’s that you can
swap anything from hard drive to CPU, and you have your Sun
Enterprise series servers and a couple of UltraSparqs. NO NETWORK
ADMIN would stick a blue and white G3 in a room like that for many
reasons. First, it just doesn’t feel right. CIO’s would laugh in
your face if you even suggested it. I don’t know how to explain it
in words, but picture all these machines and a blue and white
sitting next to them. Ummm… Not gonna happen.”