On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 12:15 PM, Dave Watts wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
Yes, now you can... and quite nicely!
http://www.apple.com/xserve/
>> 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.
>
I am not up on server prices, but I imagine the latest from apple are
competitive on p/p, no?
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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