why not OS X?

[Brian Watson]

>
>No, deploying OS X in a department/company is completely brainless. You
>will end up paying about twice, or even three times as much for about
>the same amount of compute power, you will require 2-3 times as many
>administrators, not to mention all the software you will have to buy to
>be even remotely productive.
>

Not that I like to fuel these off topic debates, but why run linux on 
Apple hardware?  It's more expensive.  I pay to use Macs for the GUI 
and Apple branded OS's.  I have a YDL box on an old machine that 
can't run OS X (although I hear that X Post Facto might soon fix the 
6400/6500 OS X incompatibilities :) ).  If you want to run linux for 
some high powered stuff, do it on x86 hardware.  It's far cheaper.

Also, a lot of big Universities like Sun's better than Linux in terms 
of scalability and support.  When it comes to big universities and 
corporations, licensing fees and cost of support are a non-issue. 
They need their stuff to work.  They can't rely on mailing lists and 
hobbyists when their 24 box primary e-mail cluster gets whacked.

--Brian