“Here’s a great idea to put to your CIO: Why not run the company using a server operating system made by Mattel? It’s the company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels (not to mention Tumblin’ Monkeys), so it certainly knows a thing or two about toys. Maybe its designers have enough time to put together an enterprise OS,” Paul Rubens opines for ServerWatch.
“Yeah, right,” Rubens writes. “The idea is plain ridiculous, but is it any more ridiculous than using Apple’s OS X Server or letting end users work on Macs in the enterprise?”
“Because the truth is, Apple is not really a computer company. It makes toys. It used to be a computer company called Apple Computer, but it dropped the “Computer” bit from its name in January 2007 as a tacit admission that it was now a consumer gadget maker, not to mention an online music retailer. Following the introduction of the iPhone and iPod Touch, two very pretty ‘boy’s toys,’ the company’s latest caper is the launch of its App Store,” Rubens writes.
Rubens explains, “The top-selling applications as I write are Band, Crash Bandicoot and Super Monkey Ball, which sounds uncomfortably similar — in name at least — to the aforementioned and very wonderful Tumblin’ Monkeys.”
“So why shouldn’t enterprises take Apple seriously? Here’s the problem: It can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Microsoft is huge, and it is quite capable of doing more than one thing at a time,” Rubens explains. “During the past two years, it worked on Vista, Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V virtualization system and the Zune — all at the very same time.”
Full article, Think Before You Click™, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Besides being a hit-whore of the worst variety, this ignoramus is an amalgam of just about every anti-Apple, know-nothing, world-has-passed-him-by, should’ve-retired-long-ago IT doofus in the world today.
Apple’s current Mac OS X Server v10.5 is built on a fully compliant UNIX foundation. This battle-tested core provides stability, performance, and security for the enterprise. And full UNIX conformance ensures compatibility with existing server and application software. Apple’s extremely cost-effective Mac OS X Server is actually the ideal platform for deploying enterprise applications and services, Paul.
Apple’s Xserve features a fast 1600MHz system bus and 800MHz memory, resulting in higher memory bandwidth. Xserve provides up to 8-core processing power, 3TB of internal storage, and 32GB of 800MHz memory. Find out more about Apple’s Xserve here. There’s nothing toylike about it.
For business-critical server deployments, Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server will soon add read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Microsoft to offer a comparable file system, Paul. On second thought, do.
Contact: Jupitermedia, publisher of ServerWatch via: http://feedback.jupiterweb.com/weblog.html
We’ll leave the Nurse Nancy jokes for you, dear readers.
Wow, it’s amazing the dumb and twisted ideas that get lodged in these people’s brains. Amazingly ignorant!
They’re quoting a nube, who thinks he’s an IT guy?
Apple was making computers suitable for a middle-manager’s home office before IBM did, and has been writing operating systems longer than icrosoft has.
I thought this was a joke article. Not to be taken seriously. Wow.
Since when is Pee-wee Herman in the computer criticism business? And why doesn’t he like toys all of a sudden??
Oh wait, that’s a different Paul Reubens. Nevermind.
he’s just worried about job security.
And it’s funny that MS worked on all of those at the same time, and they’re all horrible. Maybe not _all_ of them (Windows Server 2008 isn’t 100% dog), but most of them. So… what was that point again?!
Paul Rubens = Windoze IT dinosaur & FUD-meister.
MaWo: ‘anyone’. As in, “Anyone that believes his crap deserves what they get.”
So Apple is a toy maker, eh? How does Mr ‘expert’ explain Windows’s obsession with cornering that vital computer game market then? Does Photoshop qualify too? What about MS Paint? Hell, there’s even Minesweeper and Solitaire! (And on a Windows ME computer I used to have, some pinball wizard game)…
And by the tone of the article, he probably wants hoards of angry emails to not only inflate his ego, but provide more clueless ranting material about Apple users being cultists and the like.
At the end of the day, it’s his loss. If he wants to live in hell, let him be.
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I didn’t know Pee Wee Herman changed careers.
‘Nuff Said.
“Apple Computer … dropped the ‘Computer’ bit from its name in January 2007 as a tacit admission that it was now a consumer gadget maker.”
As opposed to Microsoft Computer Corporation?
“During the past two years, it worked on Vista, Windows Server 2008, the Hyper-V virtualization system and the Zune — all at the very same time.”
Hmm.. so let’s see.. 2 failures, and a bare-bones virtualization environment. Yeah, ok…. This guy needs a dose of reality
Since when did PeeWee get into IT?
funny but I worked in IT for a large enterprise for a number of years and Macs were used there with no issues. And according to people still there, the number is increasing substantially.
Wow. And who is this “expert” or “Journalist” they have writing for them?
Wow, a village has lots its idiot, and we’ve found him.
Does he make any substantive claims or is it all about gibberish like since iPhone users like to buy Crash Bandicoot, the iPhone is not enterprise-ready? Does he even realize that virtually all business PCs have had solitaire loaded on to them at one time or other? Does that make them silly game devices?
Do you know how many people at my mud brick company still carry around PC laptops?
You could probably drown them all in a bathtub. Almost everyone has a MacBook. It’s unreal.
Hmmm… I kinda like the idea of Apple being a toy maker.
Why is it that every sentence I read written by Paul Rubens, I hear Derek Zoolander’s voice???
hahahahahahahaaaaa…
MaWo: ‘away’. As in, where Paul should go.
I think this guy must have tutored my IT dept. I endured years of petty obstruction, before they finally realised they weren’t going to beat me into submission, and grasped the idea that the company wouldn’t collapse if they allowed a Mac on the network. And every day, I still observe the hidden costs of my colleagues struggling to achieve simple tasks on their Windoze PCs that are a breeze on my Mac.
Microsoft walking and chewing gum at the same time.
So THAT’S the problem with Vista! Too much gum chewing. Nothing a half billion propaganda campaign won’t fix. That’ll do it.
More flop sweat from the Microshaft Mediocrity Cult. The more Balmer’s toadies puff, the more pathetic they look.
I hjave used OS X Server in my company and I hardly ever went down to computer room, a.k.a. freezer, my Win peers were there constantly.
So… Apple’s computers shouldn’t be used in IT departments because the company is successful doing other things. I see. People are abandoning Windows and switching to Macs because…?
This shit is so funny, this guy is not talking serious, is it? UNIX a toy OS? or this guy is a complete ignorant o he is just joking.
M$ sells Zune and Xbox, are those not toys? And they don’t have Computer in their name either.
“Because the truth is, Apple is not really a computer company. It makes toys.
No Paul, the truth is you are a prehistoric ignoramus that knows nothing about what Apple makes apparently! Companies like Genentech have been using OSX and Mac computers for years. The scientists actually prefer Macs over PC’s.
The only toy out there is you Paul!