On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Apple's history has always been that unless it can totally dominate or > monopolize vertical markets it will cede those markets. And I felt from day 1 > they would not do what was needed to be taken seriously in the enterprise > server market, and would abandon it. That they abandoned the hardware is no > surprise. That they have started to abandon server OS as well is now also no > surprise, and they can hardly be blamed. > > But remember how they exited the server hardware market? That document that > went through the options for putting together 22 or whatever Mac Minis? Or > using a 13U tower in a rack? Pure comedy. > > That they do not allow server OS license to be virtualized on non-Apple > hardware is absurd and in the category of burning the enterprise bridge > behind them as they exit. It's a caustic exit, akin to urinating on > everyone's legs, in my opinion.
It's par for the course though, they don't allow virtualizing any os on non-apple hardware. This has nothing to do with enterprise vs consumer. Apple has a built-in aversion to running their OS on non-apple gear stemming from how horribly they were hurt by clones. I think a more likely scenario is Apple is focusing on home users across the board. This makes a bit of sense as well from their standpoint. The problem is the market wants them to do X and Apple has limited interest. I suspect they'd prefer just to worry about the client side if they could. --Larry _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
