All you have to do is connect the dots on the decisions they've already made. It's not unreasonable to draw a line from where they've gone recently to estimate where they are going.
It wouldn't have hurt Apple to allow virtualization of SL on foreign hardware one bit. But they don't care to put in any effort to make that happen. And it doesn't appear to hurt Apple to support UEFI and yet thus far they continue to use a non-standard implementation that makes it difficult to impossible to support other OS's on Apple hardware. So for anyone looking for even remotely serious server solutions it totally means abandoning Apple hardware and OS. On Nov 5, 2011, at 9:47 AM, John May wrote: > FYI, Apple has in no way said OS X Server has been dropped. That is a *huge* > assumption of the direction they are going to take. > > I have a feeling that, just like FCP X, they retooled OS X Server in 10.7, > and we will see continued improvement - not discontinuation - of it in the > future. Sometimes it's two steps forward and one step back. > > - John > > > On 11/5/11 3:51 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: >> >> Of course, Apple is a business and has no responsibility to its >> customers?! >> >> What saddens me is that Mac OS X Server was really starting to work >> well (at least for me). I remember starting back with Server 10.0 >> when nothing worked (and I spent days and days finding out ;-) It's >> somewhat like when they dropped the Newton way back when (it was just >> starting to really work well). >> >> But more specifically I am annoyed that all the information (and >> links - the web of information) we have inside the Mac OS X Server >> wiki is trapped - there seems no easy way to export to another wiki. >> At least organisations should provide some way for customers to >> preserve their investments when they leave a market. >> >> Also, I am unsure about the fidelity of saving files on other server >> filesystems. There used to be filename restrictions / >> incompatibilities (AFAIK) with using non-HFS+ file systems (and file >> serving protocols, e.g. NFS) on the server, and open-source HFS >> implementations were always behind Apple. >> >> Already, of course, my SLS doesn't provide versioning facilities for >> files saved to the server. >> >> Cheers, Ashley. >> >> >> -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia Skype/iChat: MrHatken (GMT >> + 8hrs!) >> > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John May : President http://www.pointinspace.com/ > Point In Space Internet Solutions 800.664.8610 919.338.8198 > > Professional FileMaker Pro, MySQL, PHP & Lasso Hosting > on shared, virtual and hardware dedicated servers > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
