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Article #620229Re: Soon, the Only Alternatives to Windows Server will be open-source
From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 03:17
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 03:17
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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. >Another alternative will be OpenVMS for x86-64 in 2020: I wish it well. > >https://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20171215.pdf
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