Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

I respectfully disagree with your interpretation.  You can connect the 
dots in any way you wish.  I personally see them as progressing 
somewhere, not riding off into the sunset.

But these are all guesses either way, and I would highly recommend to 
anyone reading your final statement to take into consideration that it 
is in no way based in fact.

	- John


On 11/5/11 1:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> All you have to do is connect the dots on the decisions they've
> already made. It's not unreasonable to draw a line from where they've
> gone recently to estimate where they are going.
>
> It wouldn't have hurt Apple to allow virtualization of SL on foreign
> hardware one bit. But they don't care to put in any effort to make
> that happen. And it doesn't appear to hurt Apple to support UEFI and
> yet thus far they continue to use a non-standard implementation that
> makes it difficult to impossible to support other OS's on Apple
> hardware.
>
> So for anyone looking for even remotely serious server solutions it
> totally means abandoning Apple hardware and OS.
>
> On Nov 5, 2011, at 9:47 AM, John May wrote:
>
>> FYI, Apple has in no way said OS X Server has been dropped.  That
>> is a *huge* assumption of the direction they are going to take.
>>
>> I have a feeling that, just like FCP X, they retooled OS X Server
>> in 10.7, and we will see continued improvement - not
>> discontinuation - of it in the future.  Sometimes it's two steps
>> forward and one step back.
>>
>> - John
>>
>>
>> On 11/5/11 3:51 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course, Apple is a business and has no responsibility to its
>>> customers?!
>>>
>>> What saddens me is that Mac OS X Server was really starting to
>>> work well (at least for me).  I remember starting back with
>>> Server 10.0 when nothing worked (and I spent days and days
>>> finding out ;-) It's somewhat like when they dropped the Newton
>>> way back when (it was just starting to really work well).
>>>
>>> But more specifically I am annoyed that all the information (and
>>> links - the web of information) we have inside the Mac OS X
>>> Server wiki is trapped - there seems no easy way to export to
>>> another wiki. At least organisations should provide some way for
>>> customers to preserve their investments when they leave a
>>> market.
>>>
>>> Also, I am unsure about the fidelity of saving files on other
>>> server filesystems.  There used to be filename restrictions /
>>> incompatibilities (AFAIK) with using non-HFS+ file systems (and
>>> file serving protocols, e.g. NFS) on the server, and open-source
>>> HFS implementations were always behind Apple.
>>>
>>> Already, of course, my SLS doesn't provide versioning facilities
>>> for files saved to the server.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Ashley.
>>>

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