I saw a good one today.
I was reading an article in a magazine, which one, I can't remember
now to save my life. It was talking about the possible buy-out of
Novell by VMWare for SUSE linux (the OS side of Novell).
The best part of the article was talking about who should by the
other side (IDM, Zenworks, etc etc).
The suggestion was Apple. Apparently the author was sure that it
would be a great marriage for Apple. All of the code in the non OS
side of sale, would benefit OSX in corporate and educational
markets. People call for a native Novell Client for OSX. Maybe that
would be something which would be available with the code being owned
by Apple. The Zenworks platform would allow Apple to extend their
Server environment in ways which have only been dreamed of up until now.
So, while I am only summing up the article, I see that it is a very
interesting proposal. Maybe it will happen. I know Apple has been
wanting to bust into the Corporate world. Maybe this is how they do
it? Apple dude's on the list, maybe that is a suggestion which needs
to be passed on up the food chain.
I for one would love to have a single server environment that gave me
the best of everything. Up until now, I can do all my Windows stuff
under AD or Zenworks, all my Apple stuff under OSX server. I just
can't do it all under one umbrella easily!
I have built (rather slowly) the same processes under my Novell
environment and have more than 50% of my functional OSX environment
through LDAP set in eDirectory right now. I am sure I can eventually
do the same thing under AD as well.
Just a thought and an interesting article. I will see if I can find
the Magazine which was hosting the article. I am sure it is out
there. If only my brain kept a "history file" so I could reference
like my browser!
-Heath
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