Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

On Nov 5, 2011, at 11:57, Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[email protected]> 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.

If they wanted to stop developing OS X Server, 10.7 would have been the perfect time to do it. The fact that they released Server for 10.7 tells me they are planning on keeping it for awhile.

> 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.

Um.. what other OSes? Most linux and Windows work just fine in virtualization.

> So for anyone looking for even remotely serious server solutions it totally means abandoning Apple hardware and OS.

I think that where Apple is headed is actually open-sourcing OS X under a somewhat restrictive license, the only thing I can't figure out is when it makes most sense to do this, but I'm reasonably sure that in the next 5 years it will happen.

It might be coupled with a purely commercial XCode, or some other utilities that are now free, but I'm pretty sure the day is coming.