If the biggest trade show of your corporate calendar debuts one week from today, when, precisely, would you introduce an insanely great new desktop tower and an insanely great new workgroup server?
The video is funny, funnier still because Bill Gates laid an egg at CES, but think what Apple must have in store for us next Tuesday, if they could blow off two killer new products as if they were nothing.
Speculation is rife, of course, but I think we may be in for something no has anticipated.
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Benn says:
Just rude, but I love it…
January 8, 2008 — 4:58 pm
Tony Gallegos says:
Greg – I have the greatest respect for you, but please don’t try to sell the masses that Apple makes a great Workgroup Server or is superior to UNIX, Linux, Novell or Windows server platforms.
I can give a rip about the PC versus Mac fight…as a businessman I only care about what works best, is most afforbable, network security, uptime, maintainence and integration and for a business of any size (especially in large corporate environments), the Mac platform and computing products do not pass the test. I have been in charge of groups in which they were tested and have solid data backing this ascertain up. I don’t know a high end network engineer that would disagree. That’s why not one Fortune 500 firm uses them wholesale…most especially as the backbone of a network.
For a standalone computer, they are fine…especially because many times at that level it is just preference. We have both PC and Macs in our household and believe me, both platforms crash equally, they both do the job, however the costs is higher on a Mac.
Will give it to you that the Ipod is a superior product and easier of use.
Steve Jobs does a great job at presenting and selling his product and would wipe up on Bill Gates in a speaking contest, however that alone does not make the products they hawk better because one is a natural born seller/entertainer and the other is a geek.
My wife is an educator/teacher and is working on her Ph.d on technology intergration in the classroom and preparing students for industry. She has been a Mac user since the mid 80’s, however unlike most Mac users, she does not subscribe blindly to the Mac cult group think.
Again, I can care less if Bill Gates is richier than Steve Jobs and I think neither is the anti-Christ. However, I like when people speak of technology rationally and not make their decisions emotionally.
Greg, you are great and in my opinion one of the best, but on this issue, you are creating a boogeyman where none exist.
I know I’m going to get flamed by the mac cult gestapo. However, when trying to talk rationally about the subject, the hate Mac users exhibit for anything related to a PC and most especially Microsoft is akin to trying to talk rationally to a KKK member about racism and the positive benefits of cultural diversity…it ain’t likely to happen.
Macs are good computers. PC’s are good computers. They both have their pluses and minuses.
I’m ready to get flamed.
January 9, 2008 — 4:08 pm
Greg Swann says:
You’re safe, Tony. Nobody gets flamed here. Apple doesn’t make enterprise servers, so it’s no surprise there are none in use. The XServe is a workgroup server, although a bunch of them are in use as web servers — it’s BSD-Unix under the hood, after all. For the rest, each man to his own saints. I just thought it was interesting that Apple would announce two kick-ass products the week it makes its big announcements.
January 9, 2008 — 4:25 pm
Tony Gallegos says:
Greg – Appreciate the non-flame environment. Yes, the XServe is a workgroup server that some try use as a backbone or run against Novell (the one I’m most familar). I know network engineers absolutely abhor integrating Xserve with with enterprise servers. We even brought in Accenture to see is they could work out the integration and software issues when using Xserve, however ended up just spending a lot of money with no real resolution. XServe and OS10 is better since they moved to UNIX (under the hood), however when working in a large enterprise and trying to intergrate Xserve…a lot of issues.
Even when working as a small workgroup, I don’t understand why one would prefer working with Xserve technology when much better, more stable and cheaper technology is available other than if you want to work within a all Mac environment (Which is fine if its small, you have all the software you need and Macs are your personal preference). However, once your network needs grow, it turns into a hodge podge of patchs and fixes that kind of allows everything to work.
My wife now manages network a enterprise for a very large school district and has previously worked in all Mac environment (1 1/2 years ago) and she swears them off when trying to run them efficiently on any type of network (large or small, group or enterprise)…and she likes Macs.
I understand if Mac is your personal preference…makes sense.
It’s to bad Jobs and Gates couldn’t work together (at least they tried), they could have come out with something special.
January 9, 2008 — 9:23 pm