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Re: Control Panels for OS X / OS X Server



On 11/29/05 15:23, "Dan Shoop" <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 7:14 AM -0500 11/29/05, email@hidden wrote:
>> Not wanting to get into an issue about business/cleints/money, but I can
>> see on one hand clients wanting very, very
>> cheap hosting so to do that we have to off-load some of the work to them
>> (you only get what you pay for) verses
>> clients who just don't want to know about control panels and want
>> support/management to do it for them.
> 
> The business model is completely relevant here.
> 
> Then if this is your business model and your goal why on earth use
> anything but shitty commodity Linux hw/sw and call it a day. You can
> mass host a bunch of these virtually from the same box even. OS X and
> Mac hw is hardly the right fit here.
> 
> Choose the right tool for the job.

Yep. This market is about thin margins and nigh-suicidal pricewars. It will
take you years to make up the difference between using OS X and using
Linux/*BSD, and  your customers will gain little from it

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
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