On Nov 5, 2011, at 11:57, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> 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.
If they wanted to stop developing OS X Server, 10.7 would have been the perfect time to do it. The fact that they released Server for 10.7 tells me they are planning on keeping it for awhile. > 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. Um.. what other OSes? Most linux and Windows work just fine in virtualization. > So for anyone looking for even remotely serious server solutions it totally > means abandoning Apple hardware and OS. I think that where Apple is headed is actually open-sourcing OS X under a somewhat restrictive license, the only thing I can't figure out is when it makes most sense to do this, but I'm reasonably sure that in the next 5 years it will happen. It might be coupled with a purely commercial XCode, or some other utilities that are now free, but I'm pretty sure the day is coming. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
