On Nov 5, 2011, at 1:49 PM, John May 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.
The problem for anyone serious about long term server solutions, such as those who made major investments in XServes and OS X Server, expect clarity in where things are progressing. By saying "progressing somewhere" it's even vague to you exactly where Apple is progressing. This is a lack of clarity in platform progression. Lion server is absolutely raising questions, clouding certainty, and for a significant percentage of SL server users, Lion server is a regression. It's fair for Apple to move into new markets with new products. But my criticism is very specifically that a license to run SL server in VM on non-Apple hardware, considering they are not at all in the server hardware market, should be made available. They could charge extra for it, or they could withhold any support for it. But no, they aren't doing that, they've completely abandoned that customer base and basically told them to go pound salt. > 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. Umm, my commentary is clearly opinion. But it's substantially based on observable facts than your faith-based computing perspective: > 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. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
