Originally Posted By: drakino
I'm curious why you say this, is it tied to the death of the XServer?

It is not like I never had my doubts about Apple's ability to "get" the enterprise. I was waiting for Apple to offer a server product that included redundant power supplies. Didn't happen.

But yes:

- abandoned the xServe line.
- poor ergonomics (for old folks) in the later iMac line.
- dropped Samba from distribution in Lion.
- uber-buggy LDAP support in Lion and patches made it worse.
- quasi-support for NFSv4 that will likely never get out of alpha.

Indeed we see more folks coming into our environment with various Apple iWhatver thingies, but they are all tied to "I". Business processes really depend not on "I" but on roles and in that respect I think Apple ie either clueless or does not care. I am guessing the revenues from iTunes mean the latter is the case.
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