[Fed-Talk] Snow Leopard transition creates problems
[Fed-Talk] Snow Leopard transition creates problems
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Snow Leopard transition creates problems
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:40:20 -0700
The release of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard has created big problems for us,
that have nothing to do with Snow Leopard bugs or new features.
10.4 - apparently no longer supported by Apple, including security fixes.
We must move users to 10.5 or newer, except ...
10.5 - no longer sold, and won't run on older Macs, so we should buy new
Macs, which run ...
10.6 - which is not yet supported by key third party products (e.g.
Symantec AV, ADmitMac, Juniper VPN, ...), and in some cases won't be
supported until next spring. That means 10.6 is banned for a while.
Switching to different third-party products is not an option for us.
Catch-22? (*)
In theory - all our 10.4 users, and new Mac users, must get a PC running
... Windows XP, since we don't support Vista, and Windows 7 isn't approved
yet.
At least I get more time to write a 10.6 STIG.
Would it kill Apple to sell 10.N-1 for a few months after the release of
10.N? At least to large customers?
Any chance Apple could get enterprise-critical third-party vendors on board
for new Mac OS X releases?
Could the "viruses not a problem on Mac OS X" meme lead to delays in
releasing updated anti-virus software for Macs?
-- Rex Sanders, USGS
(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)
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