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Do you realize how retarded your post sounds?

Wolfie2K3 11th Aug 2010

@Trolleur
Seriously...

Didn't OSX have one massive patch following the CanSecWest outing this year consisting of a whopping 88 bulletins/patches?

Since when is 34 larger than 88...?

And how would this have saved a dime? IF your alleged friend's company has "thousands" of blade servers, wouldn't it be prudent on their part to download the patches first to ONE machine, test it to make sure they won't blow something up before deploying it on their "thousands" of systems? If so, you STILL need to pay someone to do the testing, and then pay the guy to log into each machine in order to deploy them manually. That would mean it would take longer to get those patches out to each machine.

With Windows, you still need to do the testing, but once it's done, you've got a LOT of tools that make it easy to deploy patches to ALL of their systems automatically. It's quite painless.

And then there's the matter of your contradiction. Do they have blade servers? Or are they 1u servers? A blade makes more sense if you've got thousands of servers. Each 10u blade enclosure can host up to 16 individual blade servers. You can therefore cram 6 additional Dell Blades into the space occupied by 10 Xserves.

And then there's the issue of power. I would assume the bean counters would have included that in the figures. XServe systems are traditional 1u servers. Blade servers are more power efficient. Sucking up more electricity isn't very politically correct. Nor is it cheaper.

And then there's the cost of rejiggering all the apps and services that run on those blade servers...

And lastly... It's a data center. Who the heck gives a flying fig about what they look like? It's not like data centers are places people visit very often. Aesthetics are irrelevant.

So please... If you're gonna troll, do a bit more homework and come up with something better.