For web hosting maybe, but I doubt you will find many big companies who run thier main corporate networks using anything other than active directory.
In my opinion The best webserver is Litespeed. It is much faster than Apache or IIS. I think that lighthttpd is the best for file hosting though.
Actually Microsoft is even particularly stronger in the corporate environment than in regular webhosting (but as mentioned they are quickly catching up there). You will often find AD, File, Sharepoint and other servers from Microsoft in such environments. I am by far not saying Unix is worse than Windows as server, but the statement of The General was simply not correct.
Lanmonkey, you are a retard. Mac isn't even based on linux. It is a BSD derivative using the Mach kernal. The core has been changed a lot though, so it won't resemble BSD or Linux very much.
I'm referring to the text that I quoted. He stated that mac users care more about how macs look then what macs can do. Which is implying they can't do much.
No, its not implying this. Its only stating that the majority of Apple users seems to be concerned more about the look than the functionality. And this is something rather very true.
If it can do everything that you want, then how it looks is a perfectly acceptable comparison when selecting a new computer. People are hardly going to compare two computers that can do the job they want, and then pick the ugly one are they?
Calling something ugly simply because its not overhyped designerware is already almost the criticised issue. If you look at the typical Apple fanboy you will see that they consider their gadgets as better than everything else ONLY for a style argument. Thats what lanmonkey referred to, Apple fanboys only care about look and not functionality. Take Apple's phone, it doesnt come with anything new and even lacks some fundamental phone features but is nonetheless called revolution by the mentioned group of people.
That's a bit stereotypical, but I'll let it slide anyway. The point is, are they any worse off for picking style? They have a product that can do everything they need, and it looks great. I'm failing to see what the massive problem is here?
That might be true, but the problem is they actually behave in this stereotypically. It is no massive problem, but it becomes one if those look-over-functionality guys start to complain about the others and allege that only their system is the best since sliced bread.
But then our little conversation here sparked by someone saying OSX users choose style over functionality. The emphasis of that statement is that OSX has little functionality, so to choose it for style only is a bad choice. Fanboy'ism works both ways. Most people that bash OSX have never even used it, and are simply defending windows and bashing OSX because its the unknown. Where as a large percentage of OSX users are ex windows users. Which actually makes our general oppinion more grounded. You can also say that windows users have enough die hard gamers to counter our style fanatics. The oppinion offered from both sides is often shallow and meaningless, and doesn't reflect the makings of a good computer or operating system in any way.
These statements are so generalistic.. it's not even funny. Seriously, you think they all act like that? Do you have a mac or ever used one; especially a beefed up one. I'm sure you can do almost anything you can do on a mac on a pc but to argue about looks is a waste. Both OS's are pretty good as well. You can get a "pretty" pc just like you can get a "pretty" mac. I see no point in making generalizations, there are lots of people who actually use their mac's for work instead of looks. Very biased.
Yes, I do. Otherwise they wouldnt be fanboys. Whats a beefed up one and why should it make a difference? But no, I do not own a Mac but I dont need one to see how biased certain groups of Apple users are. True, never said anything else. Who? Apple fanboys? Yes!
ALL of them? So what about everyone who buys Dell's? Fanboys too? That makes no sense. Exactly... mentioned that. You kinda picked that out as dangling sentence, which was attached to the rest of the paragraph. Has different meaning by itself. You should explain that; I don't even use apples as my primary computer if that's what you're implying. In fact I run XP on my desktop and Vista on my laptop. Anyway, what's your point?
Matt- I spent about an hour in a mac store using one and it was not as good as my windows machine (and they are not powerfull at all).
Of course all of the fanboys! What do Dell customers have to do with that? I was never speaking of all Apple users. What did I pick out? I am not referring to you. You stated "biased" and I wanted to know who.