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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I totally disagree! Within 5 years the solutions being sold to enterprise will consist of: 1) Back office servers storing the content and running the apps that do the heavy lifting. 2) front of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Then there are those of us who DO understand the server market and aren't too upset with this decision. It's a simple market segmentation thing. What's the value of an xserve server? Not the hardware - you …
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Quote: Originally Posted by stottm The latest tech is Virtual Machines. This means you setup a bunch of high-end blades and big SAN's and run something like VMWare VSphere. You can even virtualize switches and routers. What do you think Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by roehlstation You can Rack mount a Mac Pro, it's the same case they used at Virginia Tech before the Xserve even existed. The Mac Pro has available 12 CPU cores and support for 64 GB of RAM now, I'd rather run it on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mario if the firewall is forwarding the port to the server (as it should otherwise the service on the server will not be available to the outside world) then it does not matter that there is a firewall in between. Same…
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Quote: Originally Posted by O4BlackWRX DING DING DING we have a winner! Tell him what he's won..... Tell me! Tell me! Did I get a iPad????
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hogan Child, people may not be stupid, but you are revealing yourself as an idiot. What did you dress up as for Halloween, a BP drilling safety inspector?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mario What does Mac OS X certification have to do with what servers Apple uses. IF you want to find out what actual server OS sits behind a service use something like http://www.nmap.org/ and find out. I don't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz They just did, it's called the Mac Pro, you get 30% more performance from the highest end configuration, all solid state drives, uses less power, and is half the price. Mac pro maxes out at $18,000, the Xserve at $…
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Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove Granted about the kernel, but what file system do linux and solaris use that is that much more advanced, is it the ill fated (on the mac platform) ZFS? Cause I can't believe something from linux like ext3 i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by maccherry What the heck are talking about? You just went on just to hear yourself rant some ant-apple hate. Fail +10. Apple helped pioneer the f****** pc industry little boy. They make their own world class OS and th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Solaris uses, as its base, FreeBSD, just as OS X does, and has other simularities. A merger of the two would have brought the OS X GUI, ZFS, and other merged technologies such as the ownership of Java. It woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Apple is set to dominate consumer tech this decade. Easily. What are talking about?? Apple never really had an enterprise presence. Why start now? What's the point, when their consumer divisions alone ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GelfTheElf I don't know why everyone is freaking out... - The new Mac Mini with Leopard Server is close to the same specs for 1/3rd the price. - You don't really need the faster processors in a server. - You can …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wooster101 Yeah - like they have to downsize and keep control of their spendings like they had to 8 years ago when the intruduced the first Xserve. Death of Apple in enterprise EPIC F...ING FAIL!!! 'xactly. Th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hittrj01 Does anybody but me think that they could possibly announce a replacement to the Xserve? You know, get rid of the name, make a significant spec bump, redesign, kind of an "Apple reinvents the server" kind of u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And they'll bring it back in less than two years when people who need servers stop buying (and making) Apple products at all. This is abject nonsense. PROOF that Apple couldn't care less about their profes…
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Apple... now officially a toymaker. Sad indeed for those of us who respected them as a computer company. I'm predicting $50 a share in a few years, once the hype around the iPhone and iPad dies down and competition establishes itself - Apple now …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 I think it's quite obvious it's for the Mac App Store. I think it's quite obvious it's not. That would run on relatively few servers, not a billion dollar fortress. I can't think of much other than (a)…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BUSHMAN4 GREAT NEWS for Apple fans! How so? This means that the IPHONE5 will have to be even better. Prediction: Apple, always the industry leader, is going to buck to the current trend, and be the first company to…