Stuff and Nonsense

Enderle at it again...

Oh dear! Rob Enderle is at it again. Mac baiting.

I won't favour him here with a link to the article but you can find it over at TechNewsWorld. This weeks nonsense includes this little gem:

"There was little mention of the Mac OS at the conference, yet, given the success of Linux against Unix (the Mac OS has Unix at its core) you would think that platform might make a better first target for Linux than Windows would."

Like Mac Users would go Linux? Get a Clue Mr E. Why would we give up our Macintosh goodness for Linux?

Don't get me wrong - in the dying days of OS9 I rescued an old Mac (from the dark days of when all the machines had different names but were basically the same - Performa 6300 - I think) and shoved Yellow Dog linux on it and it worked wonderfully well as a web development server. But in these heady days of OSX Tiger my localhost does everything I need to test for my hosting company.

"No one seems to talk much about Apple Leopard, the next version of the Mac OS."

He does go on to say that this is because Apple is keeping tight-lipped about it itself. But this is actually because Apple doesn't actually start hyping things until they are ready to sell. Unlike the bizarre wish list that is Vista... Microsoft offering the OS of your dreams and then pulling features out of it until it actually is appearing to be Windows XP service pack 3... with what even Paul Thorrot is now complaining is a broken interface - check out the "Glass Windows" section which may mean those who rip off a copy of XP3 will actually have a BETTER system than those authorised users with AERO enabled will have!

I despair at the following:

"This OS [leopard] was largely modeled after what Vista was going to be."

I think you may find that VISTA is doing the actual following TBH.

"Based on comments by Apple chief Steve Jobs it was slated to roll out about the same time as Vista originally was, but if what I'm reading is right, it too has run into problems and won't show up until late 2007."

OK so Mr Enderle I'm counting. If Leopard doesn't ship January 2007 (which is HARDLY late 2007) then I will be very surprised.

One last comment. If you are going to talk bollocks try and use a less trite sentence than:

"There is potential for 2008 to be a year of change, both positive and negative, for Microsoft, Apple and Linux. This is history in the making for all three entities and we are getting a chance to witness it."

I think the war will be fought in 2007. Gentlemen start your engines.

posted by John Molloy @ 12:36 PM