Le 2012-10-05 à 16:06, Maik Musall <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Hi Dennis, > > Am 05.10.2012 um 21:48 schrieb Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists > <[email protected]>: >> Thank you for your comments. Yes, being partially German myself, I am used >> to this tone of "constructive" criticism. > > Good :-) > >>> As Apple doesn't make serious server hardware any more, the primary >>> deployment platform is probably not OS X but Linux by now. And I'd rather >>> rely on the Linux distribution to give me a proper Apache/SSL/whatever >>> compilation that is kept up to date by the distribution maintainers. Or did >>> you make a whole package delivery system as well, to seemlessly deliver >>> e.g. an OpenSSL update if a vulnerability is published in the version you >>> initially packaged? >> >> This is a matter of opinion. We know many shops that deploy on the Mac Os X >> Platform and would never even consider Linux, but I do understand that there >> are those who prefer an open source platform. > > It's not primarily that. We also have a bunch of Xserves running here, but > you can't buy them any more. Mac Pros take too much space in racks (and lack > things like redundant power supply), and Mini servers simply aren't up to the > task most of the time. And since you can't use OS X Server on other hardware, > what choices does that leave us? http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOCOM/WOCommunity+2012+Organization+Survey Which platforms are used at your organization/department to DEPLOY WebObjects applications? 2012 2011 2010 Mac OS X Server 52% 59% 68% Mac OS X "client" 13% 9% 19% Yup, it's still the #1 platform for deployment according to the survey… It's going down, but it's still number one. > And if, in your case, you bypass the whole software stack that ships with ML > Server anyway, why bother? > >>> And regarding Frontbase, in your other post: who guarantees that >>> frontbase.com isn't shut down tomorrow, your server dies the day after and >>> there's nobody issueing a new license for your replacement hardware? >>> Especially given the lack of activity around the product in recent years, I >>> find it rather lightheaded to still rely on this RDBMS in production. And >>> don't even get me started on the technical details... >>> >>> Maik >> Well, sorry, but we like Frontbase! We have been running this database >> server since 2006 without any problems, and can configure it any way we >> like. If Frontbase were to ever shut down, it would be very easy to switch >> to another DB since our code is completely database transparent. > > Well, let's skip this discussion here before it gets dirty... Geert is > probably still pissed at me from my arguments a few years ago with him > anyway... > > Maik > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
