Apple Still Uses Sun Web Servers?

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in macOS edited January 2014
<a href="http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=apple.com"; target="_blank">http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=apple.com</a>;



Whay does Apple still run Netscape Enterprise Server on Sun Solaris boxes? Where is OS X?



Am I missing something here? How can Apple convince others to buy and use XServers and OS X when APPLE itself doesn't even use them in production?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    eat@meeat@me Posts: 321member
    [quote]Originally posted by dstranathan:

    <strong><a href="http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=apple.com"; target="_blank">http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=apple.com</a>;



    Whay does Apple still run Netscape Enterprise Server on Sun Solaris boxes? Where is OS X?



    Am I missing something here? How can Apple convince others to buy and use XServers and OS X when APPLE itself doesn't even use them in production?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Xserve/OS X for powering a HUGE enterprise is not up to the same scale as Sun/Solaris for high-end stuff. It still has a way to go but it is getting there. for starters, no raid, no scsi, no 4 to 64 way servers, no redunency, Solaris has better thread support, and the list goes on.



    XServe and OS X Server are great SME servers (Sm to Mid Size).
  • Reply 1 of 4
    chychchych Posts: 860member
    Strange, try "www.apple.com" :



    "The site <a href="http://www.apple.com"; target="_blank">www.apple.com</a> is running Apache/1.3.22 (Darwin) on MacOSX"
  • Reply 3 of 4
    willoughbywilloughby Posts: 1,457member
    apple.com is a different server than <a href="http://www.apple.com"; target="_blank">www.apple.com</a>

    Its probably the domain controller or some crap.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    It's not a question of a "Domain Controller" (that's Windows speak). Apple uses OS X and Apache for their main page <a href="http://www.apple.com"; target="_blank">www.apple.com</a> however it uses Netscape and Solaris to power the back end applications for reasons as stated above (more processors, SCSI, RAID, RAM capacity etc.).



    Apple's web site has been in operation a lot longer than OS X has been around and it will no doubt take some time to get everything transitioned over to OS X; if ever, because of lack of hardware from Apple in the "Big Iron" arena.
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