U.S. Government Using Mac Based Servers?

[Fahad]

"Security Systems News" has an article suggesting that the U.S. is using Apple based servers.

to read full article go to:

Government going Apple? - Security Systems News

[MacMan]

wow.

half of apples income would be coming from the US government soon! lol.

this is a positive i guess, but there are also a few negatives that i hope do not come about.

[switch101]

GO apple!!

[GrandMasterBit]

I hope this help them make their server products better

[MacMan]

I hope this help them make their server products better

why whats wrong with them now?

[Fahad]

why whats wrong with them now?

well I think it needs to be more popular to get other developers to make software for it i.e cpanal i.e hosting solution

[MacMan]

well I think it needs to be more popular to get other developers to make software for it i.e cpanal i.e hosting solution

ohhh i thought he meant that the governments servers were not working properly haha!!

the xserves are pretty decent! more for clusters then a singular server, which is just what the government needs! expensive and reliable haha

[Thomas]

didnt governments always use unix stuff? because of it being secure and such. Which would make sense for them to get something thats more known of, but also could be bad since everyone knows of it :|

[MacMan]

didnt governments always use unix stuff? because of it being secure and such. Which would make sense for them to get something thats more known of, but also could be bad since everyone knows of it :|

the government would use a bit of everything, and they wouldnt tell us haha.

the computers themselves are not that secure, and that isnt the isuee when it comes to security. the main concern for their security people is at their routers/firewalls etc. they manage it from there.