#Special needs technology windows vs mac os keygen#
Since Apple will discontinue the XServe systems in January '11, they will have no viable Server system available to run MacOS Server on because Apple's suggestion of either the Mac Mini or the MacPro as a server isn't a real option. Should you consider to newly establish an environment with MacOS Server as a server OS, you should think twice. I have a feeling that the latter might partly be the result of an emotional reaction, as certain Mac users consider their choice as a lifestyle/fashion/whatever statement.Īll in all I would say that while Mac clients are a fine choice for small to medium sized businesses or education and research lab applications, they are a poor fit if you expect to manage hundreds or thousand of them in a big organization they way you would do with Windows machines. My experience (not backed up by numbers) is that computer beginners have less problems with Macs than with Windows machines and also Windows users forced to use a Mac tend to have less problems than Mac users forced to use Windows. In recent years, this difference got somewhat smaller but is still present. Helpdesk calls / user acceptance: I don't have any hard numbers except that, historically we got less calls per Mac machine than per Windows machine. This is due to a somewhat limited documentation and the general Apple stance that "they know what's best for you" and don't support any different approach and sometimes even actively try to prevent you from doing things your way. On the other hand, one major advantage of MacOS is that you can run any machine in your environment from the same OS image (nowadays restricted to any Intel Mac, meaning any system Apple sold since since 2006), which can simplify initial system deployment considerably and makes it easy to reset any troubled machine to a known good state.ĭifficulties encountered: Integration with other systems, including Active Directory is possible, but can be quite bothersome, especially if you need very special configurations. On one side, tools are not as mature as under Windows and there is only a small selection of third-party tools available to help you managing your systems. Management of the clients is a mixed bag.
Security and access control is somewhat comparable to Windows, at least for small to medium sized organizations it should be possible to model any permission/security model you need with the tools offered by MacOS.
An answer to that question highly depends on wether you talk only about clients or if you think about using Mac servers as well.
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