Apple’s New Zealand online store running Microsoft IIS server

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Apple’s New Zealand online store is up and running on a Microsoft IIS server rather than Apple’s own Mac OS X, according to Computerworld: “The new site, which launched on Monday, sells direct to the public and is similar in look and feel to the other Apple online stores around the world, however it is run by Renaissance, the local Apple distributor. Head of Renaissance’s Apple division Paul Johnston says he is aware of the incongruity… ‘It uses SQL Server in the back end and the pages are written in ASP. If we wanted to change that over at a later date to PHP, which Apple uses, there’s no problem with that whatsoever… To be perfectly honest the guys at Conduit didn’t have enough experience to develop the site entirely on an Apple. They are putting some of their people through extensive training so if I decide in the future to put the site over to Apple we can.'”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Since Apple uses Mac OS X on much larger sites than Apple New Zealand, this is not an issue except to those who want to try to make something out of nothing. Still, Apple should work with Conduit to move to Mac OS X ASAP.

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  2. Hey Jim and traenick,

    WebObjects, please like NOBODY uses it.
    ASP and ASP.NET using VisualStudio is the only game in town in the real IT world!

    Please site one example other than Apple that uses WebObjects?

    and why would you want to when our great provider supplies all of the tools we need.

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  4. Remember that Renaissance is a distributor for many products in NZ. Renaissance is NOT Apple… Ill say it again just so that it sinks in… RENAISSANCE IS NOT APPLE… Yes it should have been hosted on Xserve using Apple Technology but the case is that the internal people obviously didnt have the “know-how” to do this. The fact is, it works… Yes its not perfect but it will do the job intended.

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  5. Sputnick’s right – well partly…

    Not quite true that “nobody” besides Apple (Apple Store, iTunes Music Store) uses WebObjects. Myself and a few other select developers use WebObjects among other tools such as ASP.NET. But true, RELATIVELY NOBODY uses WebObjects. And that’s what gets me – it hands down beats anything out there by a LONG way. But Apple is screwing it up by keeping it some kind of secret – it’s almost perverted!

    And I don’t quite know about ASP.NET being the only game in town. WebSphere (IBM), Web Logic (BEA), Cold Fusion (Macromedia) among others might have a good laugh at that. I have found that most of the more well-rounded object-oriented programmers come from the Java world. Microsoft’s camp is just catching up with the adoption of C# and .NET.

    Sputniks right about the small number of sites using WebObjects. I could probably provide you with a list of about 20 or so, but the fact that I would have to look pretty hard proves his (and my) point.

    Apple has a better tool for building web apps than Microsoft, and NOBODY KNOWS IT. It’s dumbfounding.

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  9. Thanks to bret for pointing out that this has nothing to do with Apple. I think that’s the point here. So this really is nothing like Microsoft running Linux servers after all. Hurrah!

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  12. Another thing, the site SpyMac which is supposed to be a Mac oriented site is running Linux.

    So I asked them why are they using a OS that is the most hacked and insecure in the entire world? Yep Linux beat Windows in insecurity on the server level.

    I suggested they use BSD or FreeBSD as these are the most secure and have the longest uptime.

    By the way Mac OS X runs on top of FreeBSD UNIX.

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