I think it would be nice, but apple likes to shun everything but its own software. They have built in support for many different protocols, OSs, and HW configs, but they only take it so far. I agree it would be extremely awesome if apple bought up a solution like this because there are a lot of advantages that they could roll either into their setup, or give them much greater support for others.
I have not been a fan of Novell, but I do know that is has been a very good system, with a rather large following... I think it is pretty much a done deal though with VMWare... JL On Sep 26, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Heath Henderson wrote: > 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 > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | Jason Livezey Director of Technology New Lenox School District #122 Cell: 815.693.9338 ACMT Certified | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
