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Article #620232Re: Soon, the Only Alternatives to Windows Server will be open-source
From: J. Clarke
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:48
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:48
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 06:54:33 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 23:15:29 -0200, anonymous coward <an...@coward.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Em 04/02/2018 21:03, Quadibloc escreveu: >>>> Just saw this news item: >>>> >>>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/29/farewell_to_macos_server/ >>>> >>>> I didn't really know there _was_ a MacOS Server, and so I can't blame Apple too >>>> much for deciding the effort to maintain it isn't worth the expense... their >>>> hardware is too expensive to be a rational choice for people wishing to set up a >>>> server in most cases. >>>> >>>> If, however, one has quite a few Macs on the desktop, one would like the server >>>> for them to be as secure as they are, and to be operable by people whose training >>>> is with the Macintosh, so this decision could well cost them with the corporate >>>> desktop. >>>> >>>> John Savard >>>> >> >> OS/X Server was never a viable alternative to Windows Server except in >> the minds of Mac fanatics. It only ran on a few tiny little machines >> made by Apple. > >Of course windows server is small potatoes compared to Linux (33%) Check again. Windows server has about the same share as Linux.
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