[itdiscuss] Mac OS X Server?

[Jeffrey Thompson]

Thanks for the update Ryan!  I like Ubuntu too.  The free Ubuntu
auto-updates work great.  Maybe over time Apple with get their act together
in the server department.

2012/4/11 Ryan Thomas <rthomas at me.com>

> Very, very regrettably, OS X Server, is becoming less and less viable for
> us. We are moving away from it. And I have for years been begging for the
> ability to run OS X on ESX.
>
> Why moving away from OS X?
> * AD domain integration has always been weak, unreliable. Even worse now
> with Lion.
> * Windows File-Sharing Protocol broken with Lion Server. (Replaced samba.)
> * MySQL no longer installed/maintained by Apple. (They switched to
> postgres.)
> * They don't patch their open source stuff soon enough. (e.g., samba,
> mysql, php, apache, etc.)
>
> After many years of fairly happy LAMP-stack service and fairly unhappy
> years of file-sharing services, we feel forced to move to ubuntu for our
> linux-y stuff, and putting the few file-server resources back to Windows.
>
> All that said -- if you're really needing what OS X Server does best
> (podcast producer, Mac/iOS Device Management, etc.) -- it may be just the
> ticket. Our mail services have been fine too. But for a general purpose
> server (and I'm something of an Apple fanboy) -- I can't recommend OS X
> Server.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Apr 11, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Jeffrey Thompson wrote:
>
> Anyone using Mac OS X Serve <http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/>r?  What
> are your experiences with it?  FYI: In the latest VMware 5 Update 2 Mac OS
> X Server can run as a VM.
>
> It's getting more interesting by the day...
>
> :)
>
> --
> Jeffrey Thompson
> JANOAH, INC.
>
>
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