[TriLUG] .NET on Linux

[Lee Fickenscher]

Ah, I do see your point, and I agree, but probably not for the reasons to
which you were alluding.
The reason you wouldn't do what you describe is more about hardware and OS
licensing.
You can only legally run Mac OS on Apple-branded hardware and Apple no
longer even makes an attempt at producing server-specific hardware.
That leaves you without a clear server OS/hardware vendor, unless you want
to build a cluster of Mac Pro workstations, which has been done quite
successfully in the past and I'm sure someone is working on a cluster of
the current Mac Pros (can't wait to see it).

On the back end, Mac OS is mostly OSS... Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...
You name it and it is probably available or can be easily compiled to run
on mac. You could do just about anything with an Apple machine that you
would do with a Linux box... It would just be an unnecessary additional
expense.

You are definitely correct that .NET isn't going to change a thing for
Apple. What you may not realize is that Apple may be part of the reason
that MS decided to open source it. Apple just released a new programming
language and I wouldn't be surprised that, with the install-base of iOS, MS
wanted to shore up it's position by making .NET more widely used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

"Even with the IBM deal, you are only going to get applications for the end
user." In the end, doesn't everything we do in the computer field come down
to applications for the end user? :)

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:50 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Lee,
>
> Valid point. I guess my view is it would be career suicide to go into a
> meeting with a Director ,CEO, or Board and say, " I really think we need to
> look at Apple to solve our IT business solutions". To be more specific, you
> wouldn't ever consider Apple to run a factory,  manage electronic medical
> transactions, monitor mission critical operations or create an electronic
> trading market. I could go on but I think you get the point I was trying to
> make. Even with the IBM deal, you are only going to get applications for
> the end user. Apple is great for shiny beautiful sparkly things and they
> deserve the premium for that capability. They are just not in the business
> solution realm and I do not expect them to be any time soon.
>
> That is what I meant by no one really developing for Apple and I do not
> really see .NET helping Apple change that.
>
> I agree with you that there are tons of end user applications for Apple
> they excel in this area actually.
>
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