Re: [Fed-Talk] An Open Letter to Apple on Server Technloogies
Re: [Fed-Talk] An Open Letter to Apple on Server Technloogies
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] An Open Letter to Apple on Server Technloogies
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:14:27 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] An Open Letter to Apple on Server Technloogies
I am thinking if Oracle tries to kill it, someone will fork off and create
another platform based on MySQL...
And, OS X Server ships with MySQL... Jobs and Ellison are friends, so I
think at least the OS X folks will be safe, just wont be on an xserve :)
On 11/9/10 1:59 PM, "Dan O'Donnell" <email@hidden> wrote:
>I wouldn't get too attached to that MySQL. You know Oracle owns it now,
>right? We haven't seen any announcements, but they didn't announce much
>about OpenSolaris or Java or Sun support either.
>
>
>On 11/9/10 12:56 PM, "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
>wrote:
>
>> The thing is, even if XSERVE's make a profit of $1.00 a year, it's
>>still a
>> profit. If XSERVE is COSTING apple money (which I doubt, they are
>>pricey)
>> I can see dropping it.. But if it is making so much as a dollar a year
>> it's worth keeping.
>>
>> The issue at hand now is with the dropping of the XSERVE, NOBODY here
>> trusts apple for the server architecture!!!
>>
>> And as much as I love apple, I cannot blame them. Who wants to invest
>>in
>> an OS that could go up in smoke like the XSERVE?
>>
>> I now have to move everything to a Redhat Enterprise server..
>>Fortunately
>> it's MySQL and PHP, not a big deal other than file path modifications,
>>but
>> you cannot get anyone to touch Apple for enterprise after this event,
>>and
>> I cannot blame them...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 11/9/10 12:53 PM, "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> These lists are fine but they also show something that I could see
>>>Apple
>>> using against Xserve users, the fact that these are G5 systems, not
>>> recent purchases. What have you bought from Apple lately??? We need to
>>> see recent purchases to see any trends of new and replacement systems
>>>to
>>> justify keeping the Xserve.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Kim, Andy (Gregg) wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Virginia Tech has a cluster of 1,100 Xserve G5s.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://BLOCKEDwww.BLOCKEDapple.com/science/profiles/vatech2/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bowie State University has a cluster of 224 dual-core Xserve G5s.
>>>>
>>>> http://BLOCKEDwww.BLOCKEDapple.com/science/profiles/bowiestate/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can go on and on ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/9/10 2:35 PM, "Todd Heberlein" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what Pixar uses for their render farm these days? Does
>>>>>anyone
>>>>> know?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, Apple used to promote racks of Xserves for compile farms for
>>>>> Xcode.
>>>>> Does anyone know if these were used much inside Apple or anywhere
>>>>>else?
>>>>> And if so, does Apple have a plan to change.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Todd
>>>>>
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