I ran a cluster of XServes back in the day. Probably some of the most well engineered hardware I had seen since Solaris Sparc's in the 90's. That said, the software stack didn't perform well. Ever. Way too much overhead.
Now that is interesting. I know Windows Server exists for small enterprises, but I didn't think MacOS Server would be something used for larger enterprises. Figured Apple would've used AIX in the days of yore.
When I contracted with them we ran our computation loads on a Linux server and deployed our service to an internal Linux server. Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.
12 Comments
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 124d
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 124d
Just like every other cloud.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 124d
A lot of them genuinely ran Mac OS Server back when that was a thing. Probably some that still run macOS, but now most probably just run Linux.
uenticx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
I ran a cluster of XServes back in the day. Probably some of the most well engineered hardware I had seen since Solaris Sparc's in the 90's. That said, the software stack didn't perform well. Ever. Way too much overhead.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 124d
Now that is interesting. I know Windows Server exists for small enterprises, but I didn't think MacOS Server would be something used for larger enterprises. Figured Apple would've used AIX in the days of yore.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 124d
Which servers? (But the answer is almost certainly Linux.)
madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 123d
14 years ago the answer was Oracle Linux, based on what I was told by my boss who left us to take a job at Apple
not sure what flavor / distro they use nowadays but almost certainly Linux and almost certainly one with an Enterprise Support agreement.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 124d
BSD or Linux like everyone else's.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 7 pts · 123d
When I contracted with them we ran our computation loads on a Linux server and deployed our service to an internal Linux server. Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 123d
You should have brought a hackintosh ;)
All kidding aside, thank you for that insight. Is there any use to necessitating OSX, outside of nativism?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 2 pts · 123d
The OSX laptops was for security, you couldn't connect to their VPN without it. It was also a way to monitor your usage
silverneedle@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 123d
That makes sense
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 124d
Likely a modified version of MacOS which is a modified version of BSD.