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



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