Hello everybody OK, the maintenance work we planned to do is now complete. Whilst there we decided to give Apple's upgrade mechanism a go on our primary server to see if we could upgrade it to Lion from Snow Leopard without any interaction or re-configuration being required. What an unmitigated disaster!
Apple's claims that everything will be upgraded are just plain and simply wrong! In order for us to upgrade to Lion Server, a terrific amount of work is going to be required which, to be honest, we don't much see the point in trying to do at the moment. Gordon has the capabilities of doing it, it isn't for lack of ability. It's just such an enormous undertaking to bring our server up to specification by hand, as it means editing files all over the place, it simply isn't worth while. We are still working on our quad core machine to get that one up to speed. But the primary server is now back on SL and I think it will remain there for quite some time unless we find a workable way of doing the job. Frankly, I am really disappointed in Apple on this occasion. They have, I feel, let their corporate users and enterprise customers down very very badly this time. It's almost like they're trying to deliberately drop their server-side platform because they've made it as difficult as they possibly could have done to administrate, set up and use. I really really would love to hear somebody at Apple explain and justify the things which their company has done to the server version of Lion. To be truthful it's a total flop and I have every intention of writing to Mr. Jobs if I can find his contact details, to let him know just what a let-down it is. In summary, anybody running a server I strongly suggest you do not upgrade to Lion Server. It simply isn't ready for prime time use. Yes, the hardware is good; although why they didn't put the 2.7 GHZ I7 CPU in there that's in the new client model, I do not quite understand. Logic would seem to suggest to me that server-side stuff should have the same power as the client, if not more. I also fail to understand why Apple has made it impossible to boot into anything other than Lion Server. You can't install SL on the new hardware. Puzzling I find it and, as I said, although I know he wouldn't even read my message let alone take notice of me if he did, I'd love to write to Mr. Jobs personally just to tell him what I think. Yes; I'd be polite, of course. Abuse gets you nowhere; I've been the victim of enough of that recently on the Internet myself without giving it out to others. But I just want him to know what we as customers think of the latest incarnation of Mac OS X Server. It makes me wonder just what they're saying down at Microsoft HQ. They must be laughing their heads off at this. Lynne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
