OS/X for every body?

Ecris le 5 juin 2005
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The web is currently waiting for the announce tomorrow of the Apple technology shift from IBM to Intel. This would be great news. At some stage, we could expect to have a generalization of OS/X to all Intel platforms (maybe 90% of the market). OS/X has several advantages over Microsoft equivalents:

Overall, this is obviously a very nice framework to develop professional applications, closer to a Smalltalk model than was Windows/Java.We are maybe seeing the end of the Java domination, and the come back of the Smalltalk camp? ;-)
Update: The news is confirmed: Apple will shift to Intel, but it’s too early to have them officially state that other hardware than Apple could be supported by OS/X:

However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers’ hardware. “We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac.”

I would not bet too much on this statement ;-)

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6 commentaires to “OS/X for every body?”

  1. Julien Cabot on juin 5th, 2005 7:48

    Is really a good news? It’s just another industrial player migrating to the Intel platform (aka Sun).

    A good news would be the portability of MacOS onto a linux kernel. Hence, linux could have benefit of Apple technology : Objective-C, WebObject AS, a great GUI layer, outstanding business applications, …

    Else, it will be another proprietary client OS :-( What’s up for the current Apple applications? re-compilation…?

  2. Anonyme on juin 5th, 2005 7:51

    I observe that Apple is the best professional framework around: including both server side and GUI layers. Better than eitheir Microsoft or Linux.

    I am not sure that the fact it could be open source would help that much.

  3. Julien Cabot on juin 5th, 2005 8:11

    As you wrote, the Apple strength isn’t in his OS kernel. Hence, they could switch to an open standard (aka linux). It will be helpful for users, developers, administrators, …

  4. Anonyme on juin 5th, 2005 8:48

    I thought that the OS/X kernel was a freebsd flavor.

  5. Julien Cabot on juin 6th, 2005 9:50

    Darwin (the MacOS X kernel) is a (widely) modified BSD kernel, closely optimized for PowerPC.

    Question : MacOS X have great features, because it is closed to IBM PowerPC chips. What’s happen when running on lower featured CPU chips? Will be it better than Linux, really? Is it just a port to x86 or a deep refactoring?

  6. Platinax Internet News on juin 8th, 2005 12:09

    Apple: powered by Intel
    SPECIAL REPORT: Apple to move to Intel hardware Apple is planning to phase out the use of IBM microprocessors in its computers and will change to those produced by Intel, according to a report by CNET News.com. Intel chips…

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