Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Why MacOS X Server?

Author:	Chuck Shotton
Posted:	3/12/1999; 4:34:22 PM
Topic:	scriptingNews outline for 3/11/99
Msg #:	4057 (In response to 4054)
Prev/Next:	4056 / 4058

I know nothing about it, 'cept that it's wildly popular. Most people who I talk to about it just assume that it's the way to go for Unix servers.

For my $.02, I think it's "wildly popular" for the same reasons that MS-DOS was wildly popular. People who didn't necessarily have a choice invested a large amount of time learning a difficult to use system, which resulted in a need to justify/defend that large intellectual investment. It self-propogates at that point.

Unfortunately, that argues in favor of marketing difficult to use systems that require arcane knowledge. I guess I'll never understand...

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