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Who remembers xserve?

I cried a tear or two when they deprecated it. Apple can do enterprise hardware... just because Linux and x86 hardware became commoditized doesn't mean there isn't room for further innovation.

I think Apple should come out with an M1 Enterprise chip and a line of data center/server hardware to compete with Oxide. As for an OS, why not hire Hector Martin and adopt a particular flavor of Linux (maybe partner with Red Hat)?

An LDAP offering that competes with AD and integrates with OSX would be gigantic. I work in VFX where 95% of our hardware runs Linux, our laptops all Apple, and the only Windows machines being the accounting department, yet we still use AD for directory services because there's simply nobody else that offers a product even half as good, and OSX doesn't even like working with AD anyway.

A product that could even compete with half of what AD offers and could manage OSX devices would be pretty incredible.

Well, they won’t use Samba (which has a very well featured domain controller implementation), because of the GPL. The only other one going around is the one I wrote, but Novell bought that, not Apple. (Apple wasn’t so interested in the enterprise space circa 2006.)

But anyway, AD will become much less relevant in the future as everything moves to the cloud, a la Azure AD.

and XSAN <shudder/>

What was wrong with XSAN?

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