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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