There is a huge market for servers that "normal people" can configure.
I work in tech support for a web-based email server product, and the customers who are "normal people" are the worst. They go out and buy Cobalt RaQs, because they hear those are easy to set up and easy to administer, but as soon as they have a problem that they can't solve through the web interface, they don't know what to do. This is major pain.
I'm looking forward to OS X -- I think it's great that Apple is doing it. But when OS X encourages more underqualified people to become "sysadmins," because it promises to be easy, I'm not looking forward to what my tech support mailbox will look like then.
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There is a huge market for servers that "normal people" can configure.
I work in tech support for a web-based email server product, and the customers who are "normal people" are the worst. They go out and buy Cobalt RaQs, because they hear those are easy to set up and easy to administer, but as soon as they have a problem that they can't solve through the web interface, they don't know what to do. This is major pain.
I'm looking forward to OS X -- I think it's great that Apple is doing it. But when OS X encourages more underqualified people to become "sysadmins," because it promises to be easy, I'm not looking forward to what my tech support mailbox will look like then.