Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In article <3h40efFf6caqU4@individual.net>,
Ilgaz Ocal  <Ilgaz@spamcop.net> wrote:
>Its different. Servers does not upgrade every year,

Neither o most desktop systems.  Three years is an average lifetime for
both, in most businesses (certainly in the site where I work, which has
well over four times as many computers as it has employees, and there
are 900 of those...)

>they have generally 
>custom, in house written software which are traditionally written 
>portable.

That's not true.  We keep all our servers as non-custom as possible.  If
you make them custom, the software and hardware vendor support becomes a
problem.  Try getting Oracle to support you on anything even vaguely
non-standard.

>. Professional workstation runs some very pricey software 
>with support contracts too, nobody would dare to say "oh that cpu 
>sucked anyway, lets move on" in professional software market. I am 
>telling about ordinary home machines which are used for amateur video 
>editing, gaming. Sadly some will lack Altivec etc since simply 
>resources won'T be available to support 2 entirely different kind of 
>CPUs.

I know that's what you're talking about.   But it wasn't what you said.
You said it had never happened in the IT world.  The IT world includes
home computing of course, but it also includes workstations, servers,
PDAs, mobile phones, and all the rest of it.

It's a bit like you saying "motor vehicles have never had more than two
wheels" and I said "what about cars?" and you then said "they don't
count, I was only talking about motorbikes".

Tim