“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, Apple’s advertising must really be working…
The main reason to use OS X server is to reduce the number of people like Paul Rubens that you need to employ.
-jcr
The LARGEST dollar volume in the computer (not console) games business is Windows. Based on the logic of the article, Windows is a toy and should never be used in a corporate environment.
Better logic; as the support man-hours per desktop is between 5 and 10 times higher for Windows machines than for OS X machines, CIOs should get rid of Windows (empirical data gleaned from over 262,000 desktop and servers that I have managed). The administration cost, measured in man-hours, of a Windows server over a OS X SERVER is almost 100 to 1.
I was taught, many years ago, that “In GOD we trust; all others bring data”. The data does not support the conclusions of the article, but we still publish this drivel. What a country!
@ John C. Randolph
Word.
Notice he left XBox 360 and Halo off of his list of Microsoft’s projects.
If you take a look around the site, internet.com, you can clearly see they are a pro-Microshaft website. This explains it. If a lot of their ad revenue came from Apple or they were visited by a lot of Mac users that article would have never been written.
I remain unconvinced that Apple is serious about moving into the enterprise. The iPhone/Exchange move is nice, but I’m not sure that’s not more about selling more iPhones than beginning to add some focus on the enterprise. Yes, Apple makes great operating system software and cool hardware to show it off, but I’ve heard little about Apple really attempting to sit down with companies and push its server technology with hands-on Apple support to work with the enterprise to support it.
Apple will certainly sell its OS and hardware to the enterprise, but back in the days when I was an IT manager, IBM was regularly proselytizing its stuff to us, as was Microsoft. Both regularly held seminars to show off what they could do for us, then assigned accounts managers to try to close the deal.
Can anyone here say if Apple is doing anything similar to show off its stuff to the enterprise? If it’s not, then the enterprise will never take it seriously.
But it’s ok to have “enterprise” software from a company that makes (or made) the following:
Xbox 360
Age of Empires video game
Halo video game
Zune
Microsoft Bob
MSN TV2
Home Media Server
Pot calling the kettle black?
Why? WHy? WHY?
I would really like to know why this article should be getting any coverage at all.
Best thing would be to pull it and shove it were the sun don’t shine.
Funny thing is, Apple has only posted (that I know of) one app on the App Store – the Remote.
The rest is just money in their coffers.
Let’s see…who’s stupid again?
Idiots.
Just idiots.
A bit of advice to this guy’s father.
NEXT TIME, PULL OUT EARLY !
Andy,
“Along with Ballmer, he’ll take MS into brave new lows!”
Yeah, a perfect pair. But CAN they go lower?
C1,
“Careful. You’ll offend the deviants.”
You’re right, and I apologize.
rasterbator,
“Tinkering” and “sitting in front of a computer”…”
That’s a misprint. It should read “Tinkling while sitting in front of a computer.” He’s also a bed wetter.
“Paul Rubens is an IT consultant and journalist based in Marlow on Thames, England”
That’s precisely where Toad of Toad Hall and Ratty live. Methinks Paul is a little water-logged from messing around in boats.
Plus Paul has too much ‘Wind in his Willows’.
OMG!
This explains it all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens
Hmmm. Perhaps he called Apple for support on OS X Server as I did once. It was business hours in Australia, but there was only one Apple server guy on duty worldwide, and he didnt know anything beyond the GUI…
Unless Leopard server is vastly different from Tiger Server, it is still a toy. Mail is incredibly unreliable and the GUI loses the plot – requiring manual editing of the (very unfriendly) unix text configuration files.
Apple’s international support is woeful. To get english spelling on the iPhone I have to put up with the £ symbol instead of $, otherwise i get “z” instead of “s” in any words ending in “ise” – and there is seemingly no way to get australian english spelling in the iWork apps.
Still, perhaps one day…
Here’s hoping!
For the record before i start I use a mac I have supported networks with all platforms for years.
The problem with all of you posting except a couple is that you’re fan boys. Apple is going to start facing the same problems Microsoft has if they keep gaining market share.
You all point out things like security, usability, Vista sucks, and other non specific problems that you “experience”. I would like to hear a real IT guy give me an examples.
@ applelove:
Yeah, I have black friends too.
So?
Wake up.
It doesn’t take a “fanboy” (typical loser comeback) to see what a mess your WinFanBoy world is.
Just leave us alone please?
I don’t care if you use a Mac.
If you’re really an IT pro then you know what’s wrong.
You’re a troll.
Ba-bye.
This is what happens when they let Pee Wee write with his willy.
And- the Mac OS Server is the only major system without a major DNS flaw patched. That’s an important feature.
Fanboi sh*t aside, Apple has been dropping the ball as it continues to be distracted releasing beta software upon the public for all of it’s new toys.
OS X should be a stable and mature OS by now and it isn’t. Some of that $ 20 Billion cash pile should be used to hire software engineers to close up the security holes, fix the bugs and deliver upon the promises of OS X.
@Dave Marsh
My god dave, until Apple starts making declarative statements about moving into the enterprise space you and Rubens can relax. You will find Apple in education and small business but, there is still an obscene amount of money to be made in the consumer space. I can think of a handful of products that have yet to find their way into my home.
When Apple does decide to move into mainstream enterprise we’ll see employment announcements from its sales division and other sectors of Apple along with ad space in the trade publications.
@MDN Take,
“OS X should be a stable and mature OS by now and it isn’t.”
So what Dell model are you using, bud?
“1. Microsoft treats its customers like they’re stupid.”
Can you blame them? —ChrissyOne
Absolutely right. Only stupid people keep buying the same old crap year after year and decade after decade, whether it works properly or not, when there is clearly a better alternative. When Honda and Toyota began importing their obviously superior cars to the U.S., even the lowly American consumer was smart enough to catch on eventually. Today the Japanese automakers rule the game, while GM, Ford and Chrysler are holding on for dear life. The same will happen with Apple and Microsoft eventually. Meanwhile, most people are really stupid, sad to say.
I guess this dude doesn’t know that at the end of the day, Unix owns the enterprise market. Okay, Microsoft owns the traditional corporate market market, but for all mission critical applications, you see a lot more Unix in the server room than you do Windows. It’s this thing called reliability and Microsoft has yet to figure out how to deliver such a product with reliability in mind!