Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[Milo Velimirovic]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:

>
> Am 03.10.2007 um 01:43 schrieb Brett Dikeman:
>
>> On 10/2/07, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Sure there's a reason to use more modern techniques. Nevertheless
>>> there's no reason to kick older hardware just for the sake of having
>>> them kicked. Setting a limit of 867 MHz instead of 800 MHz is just
>>> silly from the technical point of view. Setting any speed limit is
>>> silly as good software works reliable at any speed.
>>
>> Apple is a publicly traded company.  It attempts to make sound,
>> considered decisions in the company's best interests of increasing
>> profits and thus providing a return on investments made in it by its
>> shareholders and investors. [...]
>
> Thank you, Brett. This just confirms Apple is no longer a  
> technology driven company (which it appeared to be a few years ago)  
> but a marketing driven one. Time for the technical interested user  
> to look at the competition:
>
> http://www.gnustep.org/
> http://www.etoile-project.org/
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
>
> Markus
>
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> Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
> http://www.jump-ing.de/

All worthy things to look at but none of them have a chance of  
catching up with Apple's mindshare or marketshare anytime soon,  
despite whatever you may hear from Linux fans. Here are a few numbers  
from an admittedly unscientific survey of captive population of  
approximately 2000 users.

1/3 of them are using Windows Vista.
between 6.5% and 7% are using Mac OS X, up from between 4-5% Mac OS X  
last year.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of Linux users and  
on the other hand the Windows 98/ME/2000 users.
The remainder are using some flavor of Windows XP.

  - Milo

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Milo Velimirović,  Unix Computer Network Administrator
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA   43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W