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Comment by jasoneckert | Hacker News Reader

We purchased the Server app back in 2014 because it was an inexpensive and very functional MDM solution for our corporate Apple products. After all, it was only $20 and we could easily run it on a Mac Mini on our network.

It worked incredibly well, but Apple really didn't evolve it much since then and we eventually ditched it entirely in 2017 for Jamf. Since then I've regarded it as a lost enterprise management opportunity for Apple.

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Apple uses jamf internally.

Apple uses literally everything internally.

Everything?

Everything.

But not nothing, right?

Nothing is part of everything

Reddit is leaking.

The empty set is part of the set of all sets.

Let's not turn HN into Slashdot by posting inane comments eh?

Inane? It's a principle of set theory. I'd say that, in response to the other comments, it was fairly apropos for HN to make a set theory reference.

At minimum considering how my comment is common knowledge it is trite rather than inane. So forget about slashdot, let's go old school Usenet flamewar on this, you defend "inane", I'll defend "apropos" & "trite". To be honest I'm not very good flamewars though so maybe you could get things started with a biting personal insult. Something about my genetic lineage or mother's breeding habits is, I think, fairly standard, but I'll a award bonus points for creativity.

Jamf is one of those companies desperately trying to modernize a product that was slow, clunky and poorly designed from the start. Even with their concerted efforts they still put out new software or tools that could have been designed in 2005. Can’t expose your LDAP ports to the internet(!) so their SaaS can connect directly to your domain controller? That’s ok just deploy this ldap proxy software that creates a tunnel for them to route traffic over. And it also needs to have its port exposed to the internet. Apparently having the client establish the connection is out of the question. And that’s not even getting into why LDAP is a requirement for anything but LDAP authentication and AD integrations like AD CA TLS signing.

Some of this might be a little outdated. Haven’t touched anything like that in ages.

Surprised they haven't just bought them then

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