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Another example is the whole deal with 'repositories' on Linux Desktop, where you have to adopt their open-source licenses and let them repackage your app if you want access to their package managers and 'software centers'.

For people who care about 'freedom' and 'openness', they sure like to force their way of doing this upon everyone. The open-source communitah thought they could force Apple to swallow a new license, the plan failed.

#Apple drops macos server software

Which brings the question: If the license changes, can you really blame Apple for dropping the software like a hot potato? It wasn't Apple that changed the rules. Perhaps Synology's DSM is what comes closest.

#Apple drops macos server code

There may also have been issues porting the code of what remained to Apple Silicone being the final reason for why it was axed at this stage.ДЄt some point in time they had an almost perfect mix of functionality for a SMB or advanced home user вЂ“ a combination that is hard to find the exact replacement for. The general decline of macOS server's feature set was largely down to changes in open source licensing for many of the components that was too hard to swallow for Apple incidentally also the reason for why bash stopped being updated and was switched for zsh a few macOS versions back.

#Apple drops macos server mac

Tl dr: Servers were never really the focus for Apple or the vast majority of Mac users In the meantime, the Carbon-less MacOS X they had ready for shipping was released as MacOS X Server 1.0 so they could make some money out of it and collect feedback and bug reports from power users. So Apple backtracked and worked on a method to allow for easy porting of classic MacOS apps to MacOS X by supporting most of the classic MacOS API in MacOS X (something they called the Carbon API). What was released as MacOS X Server 1.0 was initially meant to be the first MacOS X, most likely with a server edition alongside.Д«ut, back when the first MacOS X release candidates (aka 'Rhapsody') were being unveiled, software developers for the Mac expressed disdain for the fact they'd have to choose between rewriting their source code for Cocoa ('Yellow Box') or having their applications confined to the Classic Environment emulator' ('Blue Box'), which they often called the 'penalty box', and threatened to terminate the Mac versions of their apps altogether (keep in mind that, back then, the Mac was an ailing platform, so Apple couldn't take that risk). The backstory about MacOS X Server 1.0 is that it was never meant to exist. It would have been super cool to see real Apple hardware in a Data Center, running internal Apple stuff.

#Apple drops macos server mac os

I mean, you would think Apple has never heard the term 'Eat your own Dog food!' and I have to believe that if they did eat their own dog food, maybe that could help them improve Mac OS and server systems a great deal more. I wondered why Apple, being a company that creates its own computers (and at least once upon a time, servers) would use a competitors hardware and operating system. My guess is it had modified the Linux to do certain 'mac stuff'. After the dmesg, I saw some sort of script run, called 'macify'. I was astonished to see they were only using common variety HP Proliant DL 360 machines, running Linux, no less!ДЄfter fixing the server, while the crash cart was still plugged in, the Linux started booting up.

I was half expecting to see Apple hardware, perhaps something like a beefier xserve. When I used to work as a Data Center Rat for a big multinational doing server repairs a few years back, I was once dispatched to a data center to fix a server for Apple. They are also (at least, historically) heavy users of Oracle software. We use an application at work that features Apple on their wall of customers, and itвЂ™s not a hugely popular service. I believe they also use Jamf, ServiceNow, and a bunch of other stuff. Back when I worked for a major Apple-ecosystem partner, theyвЂ™d send us files through an in-house system called AttachГ©. They have replaced a lot of (even sensitive) internal services with third party services. It does seem stunning, but Apple uses a bunch of third party services internally. Apple's enough of a control freak that I'd be stunned if they're using a 3rd party product internally in which case I'd expect them to be doing the opposite and pushing businesses to use iMDM instead of whatever 3rd party competition is out there. Apple points to a pair of pages about choosing third-party MDM software and migrating from one MDM service to another in lieu of making more specific recommendations or offering specific tools that could speed migration from Apple's MDM service to a different one.