Re: [cobalt-users] Raq competition from unusual source - Apple!

[Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:22:37AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>Paul Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Well OS X is free bsd.....
>
>No, OS X is based on FreeBSD.  It's quite a bit more than FreeBSD, and a
>very nice operating system.

Several people from Apple made a presentation last night at the Seattle
Unix Group monthly meeting, and talked briefly about these new servers.  It
appeared to me that they were targeting more the CPU intensive clustering
market than web appliances, if only because they come with ATA hard drives,
not SCSI, and the machines have two 10/100/1000 NICs which are much faster
than would normally be necessary on a web server platform.

Apple is very big in things like video production, and these boxes seem to
be aimed at that market.  They don't seem to be aimed at the headless
server market given that they have some pretty powerful graphics processors
as well.

Bill
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