SCO sueing IBM over AIX...could apple offer IBM the use of Xserve for...

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thegeldingthegelding
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
all of their fortune 500 clinets??



IBM tells SCO to go bleep themselves, apple give IBM so many free licences per account...those accounts would have to buy any licences over that number...os x get put on many thousands of computers and servers in the business sector...people see os x as stable and easy to use and compatable with most wintel programs and all websites





any chance of this, or is os x that different than AIX??



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from maccentral (not a rumor site):



"Apple Computer Inc. will use its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) to introduce developers to the next major version of Mac OS X Server. In the session dubbed "Apple Solutions in Enterprise" the company will introduce the new version of OS X Server based on Panther and discuss how Apple products and technologies fit into today's IT environment."





could this new version of os x server replace (or start the process of replacing) AIX...or is this much more complex than i am able to fathom?

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    stagflation stevestagflation steve Posts: 294member
    step away from the crack pipe
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    ha....hey, i know NOTHING about ibm and, surprisingly, somehow know even less than nothing about AIX...just seemed that apple needed some chips and IBM worked hard to help apple (and themselves) out...now it seems that perhaps IBM needs some help and just maybe apple can help IBM (and themselves) in return...seems like a nice little tit for tat thing, but i am sure that it would not be possible...just was hoping to hear why it couldn't happen and maybe learn alittle at the same time...but learning about pc stuff and servers is probably a waste of brain cells anyway...and i blew enough of those in college (damn you bong tonk)





    g





    perhaps this belongs in temp insanity?? or the "crack pipe" forum...now there is a forum i want to mod
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    I think OSX has some maturing to do before it can be used effectively in the enterprise arena. By maturing I mean not so much uptime/stability but rather performance.



    I also think a lot of features are 'in the works' (such as 64bitness, or db filesystem) for OSX, and all bugs will have to be worked out before going onto big iron servers.



    Also in regards to the SCO suit, I highly doubt SCO will win.
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    SCO will lose for the simple fact that IBM has more money for lawyers. The law has nothing to do with it.
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    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    SCO will lose because anyone who's actually understood what they're claiming thinks that they to have been hitting the crack pipe.



    They were wanting to cause enough of a nuisance to get bought out by IBM but they've had their bluff called.
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    I understand what they are claiming but it's moot. This is not about the law. This is about what you can force people to do with legal threats. SCO should sue their lawyers (ha ha ha sharks don't eat sharks) for going after IBM. They should have picked only in small operators.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    sc_marktsc_markt Posts: 1,404member
    I heard that SCO is also claiming freebsd may have SCO code in it. If true, won't this mean Apple will be getting sued?
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    piwozniakpiwozniak Posts: 815member
    Every so often someone asks that question.. Can IBM use OSX, blah blah blah...



    People:



    IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.



    Not with so much invested in Linux, NO WAY IN HELL.



    Also OS X is to IBM as good as Windows. IBM is not investing such resources to suddenly drop it all and go with os x.
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