“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.
As the public becomes more aware of what using a Mac is really like, two things are happening; people realize how deficient Windows is, and these Microsoft shills quickly lose any credibility they might have had, until they are simply written off as mindless loonies shouting at mailboxes.
What the hell! So the XBox is sold by who?
I’ll bet Rubens and Enderle are playing Twister right now.
Both are using the old 69 move.
Last time I checked, Microsoft was also heavily invested in making “boys toys”…maybe the author never heard of the XBox?
“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.”
So, since Vista has been a disappointment, and Zune has been a screaming brown failure, I have just one question:
Is it true that when you were born, the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?
Seriously. I want to know, Paul. If you can tear yourself away from WoW and cheese doodles for a minute, could you email me? kthxbai.
This Rubens goober anticipated the Microsoft’s Zune toy with the ultrasophisticated argument that, “Microsoft can walk and chew gum at the same time”.
Lol!
During the past two years, Apple worked on the iPod, iPhone, Macbook, iMac, Mac mini, TV, Airport Extreme, Airport Express, XServ, OS X Leopard, iLife, iWork, iTunes, App Store, and probably some other things I forgot…ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Heh – he mentioned Zune as if it was a success. Lessee – what is the date today? Ahhhh – the checks from Redmond must have arrived. If this guy wasn’t writing these wonderful articles he would be saying “did you want to super-size those fries?”
Holy shit, did you see this assholes picture.
It looks like one of those pedophile mug shots on the evening news.
Hello? The 90’s called, they want that attitude back.
This is an outrage!
Paul Rubens is not an idiot, ignoramus, stupid, or a tech dinosaur.
Paul Rubens simply knows which side of his bread the butter is on.
Like so many others, he’ll lie, fabricate, obfuscate and spread FUD, until, like the mouldy bread crusts thrown from the King’s kitchen to the muck-clawing peasants, the last Microsoft dollar has been tossed his way.
WRONG!
Apple is a toy machine, no doubt.
I love the rock hard stability of the core kernel, don’t get me wrong but…
you know it is just not that zippy. I can feel the eye candy weighing some functions down. I wish I could just turn some shit off sometimes. I wish I could do things with my Apple equipment that they did not intend or design.
Apple loves control and they want to weird you down their path of enlightened operation. Sometimes, most times, I am in lock step–like its a no-brainier, DUH! but often I feel like—“this is my computer you arrogant fucks! Let me do what I want.”
However, Windows just plain sucks, so what are you gonna do?
“Microsoft is huge, and it is quite capable of doing more than one thing at a time,”
FAIL. Walking and chewing gum are TWO separate things
That’s f*cking scary.
And it’s why we have the battles we have with “IT”
There are so many of those knob-sucking MS pussies, that nothing gets done in corporate America, unless you work at Apple, Google, etc.
ChrissyOne,
“If you can tear yourself away from WoW and cheese doodles …”
I peg this guy for a Sims player who eats boogers. Probably gets off exposing himself to cartoon characters. Freakin’ deviant.
So Paul “started his IT career sitting in front of a PDP-11 in 1979”, if his bio is to be believed. Too bad he hasn’t learned anything in 29 years.
I started my It career sitting in front of an IBM 1620 in 1966. One thing I’ve learned in 42 years is that Unix is not bullet proof, but nuclear war proof, when configured properly. OS X is not similar to Unix, not a stripped down version of Unix, but a full, industrial strength, rock solid, POSIX compliant, certified version of Unix with the world’s most advanced and intuitive GUI riveted on top of it. It can be configured to run your wrist watch or a steel mill.
Windows is an overblown toy OS, an expansion of DOS, which was written when the average consumer PC was incapable of running Unix. Over the years it’s been remodeled, patched, and glued together in ever increasingly complex, Rube Goldberg fashion, until today, I suspect that NOBODY at Microsoft really understands how it’s supposed to work anymore.
I have investigated on my own every major security breach, like credit card number theft that’s happened in the last 5 years, and at the root of every one is a Microsoft server system, often running an IE web app for user connectivity. How insane is that?!!!
Microsoft is the past. Apple is the future in IT, as well as gaming, and entertainment.
@ Sir Gill Bates
Someone ought to get him a more prominent MS ‘evangelist’ spot, then. Imagine his mugshot all over MS products! Along with Ballmer, he’ll take MS into brave new lows!
@ Zeke:
I Command-C and Command-V your post!
@CCAP1:
“I love the rock hard stability of the core kernel, don’t get me wrong but…
you know it is just not that zippy. I can feel the eye candy weighing some functions down. I wish I could just turn some shit off sometimes. I wish I could do things with my Apple equipment that they did not intend or design.
Apple loves control and they want to weird you down their path of enlightened operation. Sometimes, most times, I am in lock step–like its a no-brainier, DUH! but often I feel like—“this is my computer you arrogant fucks! Let me do what I want.”
However, Windows just plain sucks, so what are you gonna do?”
How about you go buy a copy of “Unix for Dummies”, fire up “Terminal” on your Mac, log in as “root”, and hack away at your Mac OS all you want. Customize it to your heart’s content. It’s Unix, after all. You have access to just about every parameter and setting. Stay in Unix command line mode forever, if that floats your boat. Try getting that level of access to your Windows OS. Let me know how that works for ya.
Thank you, Mr. Rubens for courageously telling the truth. Read it and weep, MAC dorks. MACs are toys and shouldn’t be allowed inside the hallowed halls of business. Stick to what you’re good at: wasting time with that rock and roll music on your Zune wannabe I-Pods.
Avid Windows enthusiasts get it. I don’t know why you MAC lemmings don’t get it. Suck it, MAC dorks!
Your potential. Our passion.™
@ Sir Gill Bates
Careful. You’ll offend the deviants.
fuk dat man
I think it’s a mistake to analyze this guy’s logic. There are many, many people who amaze me with their factual or logical errors. But this guy knows better. He’s just trying to get hits.
I’m really sorry that getting hits is used to judge web sites and/or gain ad revenue. It rewards jerks for being jerks. The best way to hurt this guy is to ignore him.
“It makes toys.”
Way to blow your credibility right off the bat there, PeeWee!
@$$ munch!
@ ZT®
“1. Microsoft treats its customers like they’re stupid.”
Can you blame them?