Mac OS X Server expert Michael Bartosh died on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan. He was 28 years old. According to a post on the website AFP548, Bartosh fell from a balcony early on Sunday morning. Local police have ruled Bartosh’s death an accident.
Bartosh was a former Apple systems engineer and authored O’Reilly Media’s Mac OS X Tiger Server Administration and Mac OS X Panther Server Administration.
“He was considered by many to be without peer for his knowledge of Mac OS X Server and his willingness to share what he knew,” according to Macworld’s Peter Cohen.
Bartosh is survived by his wife, Amber.
Full article here.
John Martellaro has written a piece remembering Michael Bartosh for MyMac.com: http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?do=something&id=1521
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Sad, 28 with a wife.
R.I.P.
Did not know him, but 28 is way too young. Sorry to hear when anyone passes before they had a chance at a full life.
MDN Magic Word: “soon”, as in, “That is way too soon to die…”
I just passed through Tokyo, will be back tomorrow for a few days. Some places in the world do not have the safety standards we are used to in America with stairs, balconies, etc.
Hotel I am at right now in Thailand is incredibly dangerous – atrium open to the bottom with 13 floors; one could easily lean too far over the short wall and fall to the death… his family will be in prayers…
Very sad… I have a cousin who fell off the balcony during a visit to singapore. It’s a miracle he survived. I guess these type of accidents are not considered freak.
That’s kind of sad, but you always wonder about those balcony deaths. How hard is it to fall over accidentally?
damm.
lesson of the day: stay away from balconies in singapore.
Sad
Michael Bartosh
R.I.P
Met the man once at an Apple Business Seminar, really nice person and willing to help with our AD problems. 28, what a tragic waste. My sympathies to his wife.
A litigious society, like there is in America, prevents these kind of accidents. It’s amazing what a fear of lawsuits will do for safety standards.
See, there are some benefits from a legal system gone wild.
SOME is the imperative word…
Just reading about a local Dr. who is basically trying to ruin the careers of two other Dr.s in the area – for no other reason than control.
I digress – sorry…
It is very sad when people die young.
May he rest in peace.
America’s Next Top Sheep: Just wait for the toxicology report
Mike was the man, without him there would not be the great OS X server reference books, He basically wrote the Apple certification materials. He knew his shit like no one else and will be missed terribly in the Mac community. A very sad day indeed…
God rest his soul.
Too bad, but reading all these comments about hotel safety, ad nauseum, is pathetic. Talk about shoot from hip. For all we know, he was on LSD.
Safety standards, standards of civility and etiquette — some see no need for any of them.
Please. Nobody “accidentally” falls off their balcony.
Take your crassness somewhere else, Jooop. What it means is he did not commit suicide, and he was not pushed… allegedly.
Apple mourns the loss of a great employee, hoping they can fill his shoes quickly. Just don’t hire anyone from O’Reilly and Associates. They may claim that they own the trademark “Apple Web Server 2.0”.
Would like to know why “allegedly” comes after an elipsis.
Would like to know why “allegedly” is followed by an elipsis?
A 28 year old man does not accidentally fall of his balcony. I fail to see what’s so crass about pointing that out.
He might have been drunk, or there might have been a low railing on his blacony. Being drunk does not mean you deserve to fall off a balcony, neither does taking LSD, which I doubt he had done. Don’t blame the man for his own death when you don’t know anything about the situation. I knew a 20 year old who fell off a blacony and died. He was drunk but that doesn’t make it less of a tragedy.
I’m not blaming him for his own death. I think it’s more likely than not that he was pushed.
Joop …. Big Al … its a sad thing when someone dies at 28 … yet you have to put forth a fairly lame and insincere comment on a person’s death … wow … you are not as important as you think you are with your postings ..
I’ve just got our company an Xserve, we’re using it as a PDC for the remaining PC’s as well as a print server, mail server etc. The guy who helped me set it up was a genius, I can only imagine how clever Michael was. OS X Server is without peers when it is correctly configured, and I’m sure Michael played a large part in it’s evolution from 10.0 to 10.4.6.
Thanks for helping to develop an incredible OS.
R.I.P.
Michael helped us all do our jobs better with his commitment and breadth of knowledge. He will be mourned and missed forever.
Hey Big Al & Jooop…no one will care when you’re dead. People with the obvious lack of compassion and basic human emotion that you guys have shown to have will not be mourned by anyone. Redeem yourself by contributing 1/10 of what Michael did and you begin to redeem your worthless little lives.
Thank you. You are so very right!
Y’all boys who are alledging pushing, drugs, etc., have evidently not traveled overseas. ALL one has to do at my present hotel is stand a little too close to the railing that overlooks the atrium and you could easily fall to your death from as high as 13 floors. I’m now on the 10th floor, and when walking down the corridor stay WAY back from the short wall – about 3′ high! Even a small kid could easily climb over it.
Point is – he was in Japan – safety standards simply are not like America.
R.I.P. my friend.