Personally, OS X Server is useful for just Web hosting. As a general workgroup server, now that's different. I made a chart of the Mac Mini Server vs Windows Small Business Server on Dell/HP/Lenovo boxes, and the Mini is 50% cheaper while not having any limit of the number of users. And OS X Server is a joy to install vs. Windows SMB, I had to install SMB and that stupid crap won't warm you about not having enough RAM until it's half-way into the install, and when you got it to run, it tell you to disable the DHCP service on your network so that Windows start its own!
> > I am curious what others are thinking about this. My company has several data > centers around the work running on Mac OS X Servers, but given the > announcements from Apple, we are obviously re-thinking our deployments. > > And as we do so, a few things come to mind. For example: > > - No more Software Update. We could actually be more easily in control of our > installations. > > - The ability to take extra crap off of the servers. I have only one word. > iTunes. Why is it so hard to remove this from our servers? > > - We could go to different kinds of hardware, like blade systems. > > - We can use a more easily virtualized OS. > > So, what will we miss? > > I think we may miss launchd, or at least I will. But then, for example, > JavaMonitor does not control app instances with launchd and I think it > should, so it is obviously not as compelling to others as I think it should > be. > > Will we miss Server Admin? No. Nice GUI but then, where the heck does it put > things and what is not quite available via the UI? For every time it helps, > there is another time it causes other hassles. > > So, is there anything else to miss? Maybe not. The WO deployment mailing list > might be getting more interesting. We will see. > > - ray > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
