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Apple Will Demo Mac OS X Server At WWDC

Posted by timothy on from the apple-a-day dept.

epec254 writes "According to MacCentral the next new version of Mac OS X Server, based on Panther, will be previewed at the WWDC session 'Apple Solutions in Enterprise.' Maybe they will get file permissions right this time."

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  1. Re:...from the oxymoron dept. by chrispy666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I tend to disagree.
    OSX server has its place on the market. Some people simply don't want to hire a whole IT dept. just to get a mail server or filesharing. In this case, since the server will be operated by non-unix-gurus, it has too look friendly to administer too. there you have it, OSX server.

    Plus, those blinking lights are simply coooooooool.

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  2. Re:...from the oxymoron dept. by Llywelyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A couple of years ago I was hired to put together an LDAP server for a major university. It had to hold student records, give them the option to change them, and do a few other nice things along these lines.

    We used RedHat Linux in a Penguin Computing Rackmount, it is ashame one of these things was not available then.

    It didn't need to have a 1337 processor(s), it needed to never crash and have protection and backups in case it did. It didn't need a fast hard drive, it did need to be easy to configure and nearly brainless to maintain or use.

    This would have been perfect for that task.

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  3. It must be more complicated than this by PDubNYC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I may not be the smartest man, but to make a statement along the lines of "Apple didn't understand the concept of permissions" seems a tad simplified, arrogant, and wrong. I have to believe that they had a very good grasp of what they were doing, but perhaps ran into problems in the implementation. Not trying to be a dick, but I think you have to believe that the engineers working on OS X understand the concept of permissions, even if they ran into a problem with them. I am sure they are under tremendous pressure to get things out the door. That said, the problem you mentioned was a huge one, and I look forward to the continued improvement of OS X, client and server, even as I pray for a new hardware architecture based on the "G5" or whatever.