On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > 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! >
You're comparing to Windows here. I was talking about comparisons to real servers. Sorry, did not think that even needed to be said. "Better than Windows" is the same as saying "better than a stick in the eye." Lots of things are better than a stick in the eye. - ray >> >> 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/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
