One of my Twitter follows joked "well, I guess Apple isn't putting XServes in that North Carolina data center", and maybe there's a connection between this and the deprecation of Java. A lot of us pointed out "hey, wait, WebObjects runs on Java, and that's the heart and soul of Apple's various online stores." Others then pointed out that WebObjects runs just fine on other platforms and doesn't have to be on Mac… so, yay Java.
So maybe this data center won't be stocked with XServes, but with some other hardware that's perfectly capable of running Java and WebObjects. Dell blades running Java? Why not? Or maybe whatever they're doing isn't going to be WebObjects-based at all… but with no more XServe, the question of what they run and what they run it on becomes completely unknowable. Or here's another idea. Consider the fact that Apple keeps itself very lean -- I have friends there who've been laid off in the last few months, while the company is making all kinds of crazy money, because their jobs have genuinely been obsoleted. The company also reassigns people aggressively. Like I've said before, never use your developer service incidents in the Spring, because the ADC support engineers will all have been reassigned to the Summer release of iOS, and won't get back to you until August. So think of that, and then consider the hypothesis that none of this has anything to do with the merits of Java or XServes at all, but instead is about freeing up people to build some Big New Thing. The Java and XServe teams are now available for new projects. There are probably lots of others. That scenario kind of reminds me of the detectives at the end of the first Act of the "V For Vendetta" comic book. V has killed all of his old enemies, and the one detective says "maybe this has all been an elaborate vendetta. That's the explanation that I find most reassuring, because that means it's over." "But what if he's just been clearing the ground? What if he's planning something else?" --Chris On Nov 5, 5:13 pm, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that they just introduced the Mac Pro Server line up with OSX Server > you might want to think again... > > Whats more interesting is Apple is currently hiring for a senior cloud java > developer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
