Has anyon considered the possibility of an intel based rack mount?
I mean think about it, all you need for OSX server really is Carbon & Cocoa. If Apple buy out some rack manufacturer and give it a funky case, by linking it to what would become propriety Apple hardware means it can't work on any other PCs, how easy would it be!? There would be basically no work to do beyond porting Aqua across.
The advantage? Think of all the redunant Hardware manufacturers they could choose from!!! How good could these servers be!
Worth a thought anyway!
John. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
The advantage? Think of all the redunant Hardware manufacturers they could choose from!!! How good could these servers be!
Worth a thought anyway!
John. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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There really is no point making one either.
[quote]I mean think about it, all you need for OSX server really is Carbon & Cocoa. If Apple buy out some rack manufacturer and give it a funky case, by linking it to what would become propriety Apple hardware means it can't work on any other PCs, how easy would it be!? There would be basically no work to do beyond porting Aqua across.
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Noone would port their apps to a x86 version of MacOS-X if it ran only on some server.
So the only apps available would be java and Apples own.
You know, headless applications don't really need the extra slowdown of a GUI that noone needs anyway.
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<strong>There would be basically no work to do beyond porting Aqua across.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No work except for the tons of work to port Aqua to Intel.
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<strong>I mean think about it, all you need for OSX server really is Carbon & Cocoa. If Apple buy out some rack manufacturer and give it a funky case, by linking it to what would become propriety Apple hardware means it can't work on any other PCs, how easy would it be!? There would be basically no work to do beyond porting Aqua across.
The advantage? Think of all the redunant Hardware manufacturers they could choose from!!! How good could these servers be!
Worth a thought anyway!
John. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
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If that happen, it probably after the PPC rackmounted server, and then the Sun rackmounted server. In other words, it probably won't happen in 14th May.