But what about the security issue. Has there been a Mac virus since late 80's. The ultimate in poor performance is being hacked.
Mac servers might be great for the market segment MM is trying to appeal to with CF. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: [SOT] CF on OS X... just venting > > And again, while OS X can run all this nifty software, > > who's actually buying servers from Apple? > > http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,50454,00.html > > > Can you rack-mount those new iMacs? > > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/gvs9000/ > > Macs pack serious power. Yes, but at a pretty poor price/performance point for general business computing. Floating-point math (using AltiVec on PPC) is one thing, relational database front-ends are another. I'm not a big fan of IDE-based RAID, either, which is what Terra Soft offers, I think. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
