If I *had* to spend the money, I'd buy SUN. Instant corporate legitimacy for apple servers/workstations. The strategy would be to make everything that runs on solaris run on OS X (binary compatibility first, a'la classic mode and rosetta, then move it all native), and make Solaris run on SPARC. That would allow Apple to migrate data centers/workstations from Solaris to OS X server over the next 3-5 years.
While that's going on, make OS X and java happy together again (the current state of affairs with JDK6 is very sad), and leverage the SUN data center presence to create a truly enterprise class Apple branded/designed storage solution (x-serve raid with ZFS ftw) that competes head to head with EMC, 3par, and IBM.
Then again, I don't *have* to spend 19B right now...
SUN!
If I *had* to spend the money, I'd buy SUN. Instant corporate legitimacy for apple servers/workstations. The strategy would be to make everything that runs on solaris run on OS X (binary compatibility first, a'la classic mode and rosetta, then move it all native), and make Solaris run on SPARC. That would allow Apple to migrate data centers/workstations from Solaris to OS X server over the next 3-5 years.
While that's going on, make OS X and java happy together again (the current state of affairs with JDK6 is very sad), and leverage the SUN data center presence to create a truly enterprise class Apple branded/designed storage solution (x-serve raid with ZFS ftw) that competes head to head with EMC, 3par, and IBM.
Then again, I don't *have* to spend 19B right now...