IMHO, too, compared to NeXTstep and Mac OS 9, Mac OS X’s UI is terribly designed. The only nice technical thing I like about Mac OS X is Quartz, something not enough for me to actually switch to it. They may have the best looking OS, but as for the platform, I think not. But from the benchmarks I have seen, the only use I can find from a Apple server is for some really big business who is too stingy to get a real sysadmin.īitgeek: Apple has the best desktop platform on the planet IMHO It is a rackmount server with a titanium case and a nice Apple logo, along with cute little LED lights in front. I think it is much more economical for Sun to build a better UI than to buy Apple to get it.īitgeek: You obviously haven’t seen the XServe. In fact, the only nice thing Apple has there is a nice UI plus some good streaming software, something a lot of sysadmin don’t really need. But what I know is that Sun absolutely DON’T need Apple’s technology in servers. Some people think Apple’s servers are crap, others think it is God’s manna. Personally, I don’t think they are great servers when compared to a Sun. I’m not going to deny your statement, because it is extremely relative. Linux is free and is already more popular in the corporate world.īitgeek: Not only do they make good servers, they make EXCELLENT servers. More so than Windows NT because OS X is based on Unix. As the GUIs on Linux improve OS X may become less and less relevant. Windows, Linux will become more competitive in education and desktop publishing. Although it will need new markets to grow. Sun already has BSD in SUNOS so it does not need Apples BSD.Īpple is fairly strong with it’s niche market and fanatics. Sun will still make big bucks selling million$ servers with Solaris or even Linux if necessary (IBM is doing it).Ĥ. Sun will gets to sell hardware with Linux and get on corporate desktops with StarOffice & Java. (Aqua, Quicktime, BSD, QD3D, AppleTalk etc. Apple is not strong on the corporate desktop and SUN already has star office and Linux on Intel & Sparc. Sun already a better Unix and better servers. Apple really brings nothing that Sun really needs. Sun has very little to lose and a lot to gain by going that route.ġ.

Linux on low end servers and desktops is definitely the better path for SUN.

It appears that Sun & Apple would be more trouble than it’s worth.

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