Exactly, lion server is just like, say, FCPx, a rejiggering and a change of focus.
And there are plenty of scenarios where a "serious" server setup does not equal a rack full of virtualized boxes and a SAN... In fact most don't. /Thomas On 05/11/2011, at 20.49, John May <[email protected]> wrote: > I respectfully disagree with your interpretation. You can connect the dots > in any way you wish. I personally see them as progressing somewhere, not > riding off into the sunset. > > But these are all guesses either way, and I would highly recommend to anyone > reading your final statement to take into consideration that it is in no way > based in fact. > > - John > > > On 11/5/11 1:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> 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. >>>> > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
