Jack Coates;169638 Wrote: > .... > > > * No Exchange or Office support. > > > > > > > No exchange support is good, the rest sucks. Exchange does IMAP and > > should do SyncML too. > .... > > The thing is a toy and will only be used by SOHO folks and soccer > moms; end of story. It telegraphs that for all their talk about > enterprise, Apple, Inc (no longer Apple Computers) is still not > inclined to work instead of play. Wake me when the XServe ships with a > 49 cent (in bulk) IPMI chip. > > -- > "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, > So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
>From my experience, the problem with XServe isn't hardware, but software. OSX may be a nice OS for end users, but the layering of BSD over Mach, with incompatible threading models, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to get any kind of decent performance out of a large multithreaded server application (as I have learned to my cost). If you are interested in this, do a search on something like: osx funnel mach threading pthreads problem performance -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
