On 2012-10-05, at 8:37 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote: > > 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.
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