OS X: Enterprise Ready Out of the Box

Something many people do not understand is that OS X is far more ready than Windows to run heavy duty applications. OS X is UNIX. The GUI is the front end, but the commands are eventually translated to UNIX. Whereas Windows requires Cygwin to emulate UNIX, OS X is UNIX.

Secondly, OS X comes with Apache Web Server. Windows requires the installation of a webserver. A brilliant product called MAMP allows you to use the existing OS X Apache Web Server and autoconnect it to MySQL. Litterally, MAMP does all the config and setup. It shows the server and database connections in simple terms. See the screenshot below.

I am unaware of any product like this for Windows….and would be surprised if it existed. One of the things that really should happen is the simplification of web server setups. It is currently far to complex to setup web servers and to redirect them to different databases. If only MAMP was ported to Oracle, Oracle for Mac combined with Apache already standard on Mac could allow for an easy setup of Oracle and Apache on Mac. Hopefully this comes to pass.

Java on Mac

Furthermore, Java SDK is part of the OS X install, so there is no installation necessary.

More to follow on these subjects.

There is a more detailed article on MAMP over on the MACIDEAS blog.

http://macideas.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/mysql-and-wordpress-and-mamp-on-mac/

The MAMP website is here:

http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html