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To: antiRepublicrat
You need to get a bunch of different management software to do this on Windows or Linux.

Looks like something that an SNMP manangement package would do. You'll have to ask the folks at Apple, though, why they spend their time advertising iPods instead of their server products, which even I do agree look pretty darn good. And I think I know the answer; the iPods make money. Server products don't. So, although there may be some very talented folks there developing cool server stuff, the management is still more concerned about hyping an image of "Apple = dude hopping around with iPod earphones on" instead of "Apple = BSD ready for the enterprise". And that's why they will most likely never penetrate the enterprise; the general perception of Apple is that they are a toymaking company making toys, and Apple feeds right into that perception daily.

72 posted on 08/19/2006 11:34:11 AM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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To: kittycatonline.com
You'll have to ask the folks at Apple, though, why they spend their time advertising iPods instead of their server products, which even I do agree look pretty darn good. And I think I know the answer; the iPods make money.

iPod has the mindshare, so I'm sure advertising brings in more dough. And although they are making some good money on their computers, it would be nice if they advertised their servers more, because they have had some amazing stuff for quite a while. They did give server publicity a try with the VA Tech cluster, but they didn't carry it.

80 posted on 08/22/2006 7:22:05 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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