Evidently, there are two main camps in the Server community: those
who only intend to use what's under the hood; and those who see
Apple's marketing and documentation about a GUI above all the Unix
stuff and expect it to work as documented. Many times on the e-mail
list and the discussion list, I've seen the 'under the hood'
community humiliate the GUI community for having the gall to expect
the product to work as advertised and documented. It's a rather
unpleasant sight.
Apple has effectively abandoned the small user, that is, anyone not
prepared to pay $6,000 / yr for a support contract. Unfortunately,
they have continued to market as they have before. As I and others
have pointed out, you can't believe anything coming out of Apple about
Server at this time. This marks the start of the decline of Apple,
which will hit Mac OS X client next. Actually, it already has with a
drop in quality and the outsourcing of repairs. The iPhone/iPod and
AppleTV is where Apple is now innovating. We can see some of the new
stuff being retrofitted to the Mac OS after it is stable there. Apple
is a consumer electronics/phone/media giant now. Server doesn't have
much of a role in that picture. When client is no longer important as
a media platform, we can expect it to start its slide out of existence.
This List is populated by at least one arrogant know-it-all, who seems
only able to maintain his self esteem by heaping shit on anyone not up
to his 'standard'. Beyond this is a number of people who have invested
their careers in Mac Server and must reject any criticism of Apple, no
matter how justified it is. The fact that Apple continues to market to
the new user as a point-and-click product that "just works" and that
some of these people appear on this List, since it is the only place
where any support of Server occurs, seems to be a fact they continue
to ignore.
dss
David Stodolsky email@hidden Skype: davidstodolsky
