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Re: Soon, the Only Alternatives to Windows Server will be open-source

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:28
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On 5 Feb 2018 10:31:06 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>On 2018-02-05, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-02-04, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> People ask me sometimes what sort of laptop they should buy. I always
>> advise Mac. if you tell them Linux, you will spend the next year
>> telling them what to do. 
>>
>> They usually ask, come back, and say "They are too dear."
>> to which the reply would be,
>>
>> "If you are happy with rubbish, then buy rubbish"
>>
>>
>
>There is a picture somewhere of  Microsoft announcing a new feature,
>the reporters are almost all using Macs.

I don't think that reporters doing something is any kind of
recommendation.
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