“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.
“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.”
1) The company I work for ain’t switching from XP to Vista any time soon, explanations VISTA IS A POS! Me thinks XP is a POS too
2) We were supposed to be switching over to Windows Server 2008, but we are not, why, because the POS is millions timers slower than Windows Server 2000 another POS from Microcrap
3) This asshole must go and hang himself a million times
4) Zune is a piece of shit
5) Fuck Microsoft and Balmer too, I will die and resurrect and die again before I buy their shitty products!
moron
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@ Chrissy One
If he’s not careful, he’ll get cornered by them, then sighed and glared at, to death!
Not a good way to go, at all.
By the way, I take back what I said about Windows Server 2008 not being a 100% total dog. I was just trying to be nice. It’s the best (least-bad) product of those he mentioned though.
Finally making the jump to IT, due to the increased demand for Mac IT professionals. Very happy to finally have my first love also be a (very) marketable skill.
@ Andy
My flower-power beats their glower-power any day. ;P
How do these idiots get this crapola they spew out published?
It amazes me day after day..
I would hardly think that providing 3 men and a dog to devise the zune would be beyond even your average local market trader, which the ways things are going Steve Ballmer may soon be.
This guy must be Queensland Rail’s head of IT.
I fixed his typo:
“Here’s the problem: I can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Not only is this idiot guy misinformed and ignorant to write this, but he is allowed to influence and reinforce the way of thinking for all the other misinformed, ignorant idiots.
The “candy” statement I heard over 12 years ago when I bought a pre-Gil Amelio Performa and later traded up to a 7500(which is still running, by the way).
After the looks of Vista, surely he can come up with a better word. After his talk about games, he can’t use that myth either…what has he got left?
One of the main arguments often used against Macs is that they don’t play games, yet because Super Monkey Ball is one of the most popular titles in a store aimed primarily at individuals for personal use, Apple aren’t a computer company!
Thank you, Mr. Rubens for courageously telling the the factual truth straight from MICROSOFT press machine-paid for by the Microsoft bank of fear.
Read it and weep, PC dorks. Because MICROSOFT is on the run with the total failure of VISTA and they are even counting XP under VISTA business license as a Vista sell. Apple is cracking the damn of MIGHTY MICROSOFT.
PCs 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 iPod wannabe Zunes- Hell EVEN the MASCOT with his Zune tatoo has defected to hallowed halls of APPLE.
Avid Macintosh enthusiasts get it. I don’t know why you PC lemmings don’t get it. Suck it, PC dorks! Because the MICROSOFT money MACHINE is throwing money out to anyone that will tell the tale as Microsoft wants it. They are sailing in fear, fear and IT is the next to fall to the mighty iPhone, iPod, and Mac computer.
Your potential. Our Blunder.™
“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.”
Yeah, look how well they did on those! Still losers, every one.
Let me see, Apple’s UNIX is a toy. While Microsoft’s CP/M clone was still being written by a kid in college, UNIX was running some of the biggest business computers and defining what the enterprise was. Not to take anything from CP/M (I loved CP/M) but it was the OS for the toys.
Windows has come a long way, it is used in businesses all over and makes the computers as reliable as the toys that your two year old breaks daily. Unix has gotten better and even Linux (ubuntu at least) has now caught up to Windows for ease of use. Yet Windows still lacks many core security needed to work in the enterprise.
Apple has Joined the UNIX big iron crowd, and it is not ready for the enterprise. By that standard, Windows will soon be ready to run your child’s toys.
Some people are just too stupid to see logic, so let tem follow the lemmings off the cliff. Humm, that might make a good computer commercial ….
I have asked this question a hundred times, and nobody has answered it yet. The question is:
How does a complete idiot get a job writing “authoritative” articles for a mainstream publication?
ServerWatch may be a no-name hack job for all I know, but many sites that publish this kind of drivel belong to big media companies. Is it that these companies simply don’t care what they publish as long as people keep visiting their web sites?
“……Apple announced. “As a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.”
That’s scary stuff and not what you want to hear from an OS developer.”
Wow so how does Paul feel about MS when they were working on Longhorn? I mean if we want to compare delays…..
Smart move on his part not to allow comments.
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@ Nickster
Leopard was delayed 4 months, and Longhorn was delayed 5 years. So Microsoft is therefore 15 times more scary than Apple.
Sounds about right to me.
That idiot sucking on Steve Ballmer’s tits is precisely the type of IT ignoramus that has made me embarrassed that I have been in IT for the last 20 years.
Who made Mr. Hamburger Man a CIO?
Geez, the PC people complain because Apple doesn’t have as many games and now that iPhone has games, they say it’s just a toy ’cause it has games. DUH!
Look, if you’re in IT and you can’t support Macs, then you are a lousy failure at your job. Period.
Somehow, many of us in the tech industry can manage to support multiple platforms every single day with no terrible meltdowns (other than the normal meltdowns, that is), so what the hell is your excuse?
I don’t get to tell my customers not to use Vista because I think it’s ‘ridiculous’. I have to learn the OS, and learn its issues, and do the bloody job I’m paid to do.
Why are you so bloody useless that you can’t figure out how to effectively use this Childlike, Fisher Price OS that you constantly bag on? Is it too complex for you? Really? You can hack the Registry, but you can’t understand OS X? How dumb are you, anyway?
I’m sick of your bullsh|t, you worthless hacks. You should be fired and barred from ever working in a technical capacity again.
OMG!!!! What ChrissyOne said! Yeah!
How fast will Apple be able to respond with patches if it’s too busy selling Super Monkey Ball?
Remix:
How fast will Microsoft be able tofix Vista if it’s too busy selling Marble Blast Ultra <http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/livearcadexbox360/?WT.svl=nav>? Last time I checked, Microsoft was busy losing 1 Billion dollars selling red-ringed game consoles.
Byline: “… Paul Rubens is an IT consultant and journalist based in Marlow on Thames, England. He has been programming, tinkering and generally sitting in front of computer screens since his first encounter with a DEC PDP-11 in 1979.”
“Tinkering” and “sitting in front of a computer”… and he says Apple makes boys toys and doesn’t belong in the enterprise space?
Uh, Paul… sounds like you don’t belong in the enterprise space. Outer space, maybe…
“”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.””
wow, impressive.
and tell me, which one works?
oh wait, none of them do……
C1
“1. Microsoft treats its customers like they’re stupid.”
Can you blame them?
hey sometimes the truth hurts!