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Apple Will Demo Mac OS X Server At WWDC
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."
Seriously. I'm as big a Mac fan as the next guy, but the Mac is just not a server computer. Maybe if there're 970s at this WWDC that'll change a bit, but the current Moto PPC is just too underpowered, and its FSB is just too slow to be competitive. You can get more racks, but the dang things cost too much to be price-competitive.
The best thing about the PPC is its vector unit, and that's not all that useful on a server (POWER architecture doesn't even have it; it had to be hacked on in the 970, and is worse in some ways than the MOTO Altivec). You could use it to speed up your crypto, but it's really a bigger help with RC5 than say RC4 for obvious reasons, and doesn't give that much an advantage for AES or 3DES or just about any other code. Not unless they add a GF(2^32) vector multiply or something crazy to keep those weird benches up. I suppose it could be useful with RSA or DH, but that could take a good deal of assembly to optimize.
And you can run apache httpd on them (I run it on my eMac). Big whoop, you can run it on an AMD or whatever for half the price.
The OS is not designed to be a server, it's designed to be a personal use OS. Really, Apple will not do well in that market without major IBM help.
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
No, it is not an attempted troll. It is just another knee-JERK response by one of the Mac lemmings, swooping in to combat any and all unclean criticisms of the Apple Coven, justified or no.
Q: What is the difference between a Wiccan and a Mac zealot?
A: The Wiccan isn't out there defending a CORPORATION fer cryin' out loud, not a way of life.
Grow UP you annoying true-believers.