“The data storage systems that Seitel Inc. was using were too sophisticated — and too costly — for its needs. So Seitel replaced the arrays from EMC Corp., one of the biggest names in the market, with Xserve RAID storage units from a company associated more with portable music players than business storage technology — Apple Computer Inc.,” Grant Buckler reports for The Globe and Mail. “No, Seitel isn’t a Macintosh shop. Ben Huber, information technology manager at the Houston-based seismic data provider’s Calgary operations, says Seitel has no Macs and no plans to buy any. Most of its servers run Windows. Mr. Huber says Seitel chose Apple storage because of lower up-front prices and long-term maintenance costs when compared to products from more mainstream storage specialists.”
“Apple’s current strategy for tackling the business market has roots going back several years. In 2002, Apple launched its Xserve server line. A full-powered Xserve costs less than $5,000 (U.S.), with no additional fees for connecting client PCs — a factor that is drawing particular attention from smaller businesses with limited IT budgets. Microsoft Corp., in contrast, charges client-access licences for machines attached to its servers,” Buckler reports. “Michelle Warren, an analyst at Toronto-based Evans Research Corp., says Apple is benefiting from growing security concerns business have about Microsoft software. “The security aspects of Apple are pretty strong selling features.””
Full article here.
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Everyone in the Real IT World knows that the only Trusted Computing available is within the .NET realm. Addressing all known vulnerabilities is the target of the Vista platform, and in this area it has already exceed the combined efforts of all other computer companies combined.
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I love you Sputnik.
Sputnik that has to be the funniest thing I have read all day.
Oh, and everyone knows that I eat my own feces as well.
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Given that MS has been ‘addressing vulnerabilities’ for the last n years with a conspicuous lack of success, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Tacitus
You never fail to bring a tear to my eye, Sputnik. When the last Windows vulnerability is finally brought down (like the bronze staue of a vanished regime’s imperialist dictator) it will be a glorious day for downtrodden programmers everywhere. Workers of the Real IT World will unite and march in the streets, singing “Developers! Developers! Developers!” I just hope I’m there to see it, and I’m not, you know, in the bathroom or something.
Sputnik, you’re a funny bird!!! Trusted Computing, vulnerabilites address via Vista platform. LOL Trusted Computer is voluntary, and Microsoft isn’t applying it to Vista. If you’re this funny in print, I wonder how well you’d do on Amature Night at the Improv.
mw industry, as in: sputnik you’re in the wrong industry you should be a comedian.
LOL Sput, well put. And you are perfectly right. Vista platforms are the safest now. The problems will arise when they start selling them and connecting them online. Till then Microsoft could rightly claim to be at least on par with OS X – security wise – with at least one of its Windows flavor(s): those not released to the public.
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MDN “nothing” as in Nothing can show the ridicule around MS as a satellite sputnik high in orbit.
Sputnik is living in a fantasy world talking about an operating system “Vista” that doesn’t even exist yet and won’t for another year and a half. .Net is a joke and a scam to get big business to buy Microsoft. We all know from the news how secure Microsofts operating systems are. To put it in a nutshell they are NOT secure and are costing companies millions. Him and Enderdele should get together as they would both be very happy hugging Microsoft and talking about there fantasies.
Addressing all known vulnerabilities is the target of the Vista platform virus writers.
Ahhh, now it reads right! With Vista nothing will be left in the dark on all will be exploited for everyone in Sight.
Sputnik
“.. The security aspects of Apple are pretty strong selling features”
check it out
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5845850.html?tag=nl.e589
and BTW if haven’t noticed, Vista ain’t here
IIRC hasn’t a virus already been shown to attack Vista? If that is correct then Vista is already more vulnerable than OS X
When it comes to getting an honest opinion on the best hardware and software choice for IT, I am reminded on a funny and very accurate quote.
“Never ask your barber if you need a haircut.”
Fools like Sputnik are the last people to ask about what is the best choice in this technology. They have ulterior motives and as such their opinions are not very valuable.
gawd….I’ve missed Sputnik!!
There are those of us in the “Real IT World” that also think you are full of crap.
Anywho…it takes all kinds.
15th post!
Hah!!
Can’t touch this.
Hammer time!
More people would get the Xserve if it had dual power supplies. Right now there is only one, and if it goes out, oh well, have to replace and restart, instead of just replace and keep running. Apple, make it have dual power supplies, Please.
When the XServe G4 came out, we pointed out three issues to our Apple rep:
1) no error correcting RAM
2) no hardware RAID for internal drives
3) no redundant power supply
… something we had in our then-Compaq 1U servers. They fixed two of those with the XServe G5, and they tell us that we should cluster our important apps to avoid the power supply issue. If they remedy that, they will be on par with the Dells and the HP’s in the enterprise server space. We have a lot of clients that like the XServe RAID two, except for the single point of failure in the fiber connection.
MDN magic word “off” – Apple isn’t too far off from making some money in the “real business” world
That was not the sputnik of old. Sputnik used to have good points and was almost never sarcastic.
Sputniks Windows world is crumbling, hes regressing, Vista’s not here, hes been waiting for years, viruses and worms are eating away at his idol. Lets give him a break, and not laugh too loudly, or often, or enjoy it while we’re doing it
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