Re: Mac OS X & Mac OS X Server

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0402071123.30d5067d_at_posting.google.com>...

> If you have dealt with trying to get patchsets and bug fixes out of
> Oracle for a platform not on Tier 1 support (like win32) you would
> likely shy away from such an operating system.

Assuming Oracle continues to behave this way (and there's no reason to believe otherwise), I'm in full agreement.

> The GUI of the Oracle Server operating system is interesting to me
> only as far as running the Oracle Universal Installer. Beyond that,
> the command line and sqlplus from my workstation are sufficient (or
> whatever 3rd party tools you run from your management workstation).

Well, OEM seems to be getting more important as the releases get more cluster/grid oriented. Though OEM for 10g seems to be web-based, if I recall the screenshots I've seen, which means the platform won't really matter to much.

> What business requirement are you satisfying by specifying a Mac OS X
> Server?
> most likely your own agenda.

Yeah, pretty much. Then again, a lot of hardware decisions - in companies large & small - are made based on personal agendas, from what I've seen.

Anyway. I think OSXS might be appropriate for small companies' web/file/print serving, but it doesn't belong in a larger company's data centre yet...

Cheers
Stu Received on Sat Feb 07 2004 - 17:55:22 CST