On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: >>>> 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.
While that may be true, it says nothing of the size of the deployments. At work, I have over 600 WO instances scattered on Windows machines all over the country. Ramsey _______________________________________________ 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]
