John Welch

Having had a chance to really test Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server, I’m still impressed. I still think it’s the best server release Apple has ever had, especially from the SMB point of view. However, like every bit of software ever released anywhere, it’s not perfect, and there are some things I’d like to […]

Today, I’m going to start a series of articles on Mac OS X 10.5, “Leopard” Server, but first, I wanted to talk about an announcement that has a great deal of potential for the Mac IT market, namely the change in the EULA (end user license agreement) for Mac OS X 10.5 Server. As reported […]

Two, two, two updates in one! In moves that should surprise no one, Apple announced both a release date for Leopard and Leopard Server (Oct. 26th, 2007), and that there would indeed be a “real” iPhone SDK, along with a general availability timeframe (February of 2008). The Leopard announcement should not be “news” in and […]

The Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit, aka the “Mac BU,” just announced the pricing for the next release of Office for the Mac. The core suite will be priced at $399.95 retail, $239.95 for the upgrade. A new “Home and Student” edition that ships sans Exchange support or Automator actions will be $149.95, and another new […]

“God, every time Apple intros a new iPod, they happily bring a cannon to a knife fight!” was the quote from Andy Ihnatko on Twitter during the Apple announcement, and that may just be the best description of it you’ll find. The Apple announcement today covered everything: • From minor: New colors for the shuffle, […]

As everyone in the Mac universe knows, the latest version of Apple’s productivity “suite,” iWork ’08 now has a spreadsheet application, Numbers. Of course, this has lead many to speculate what this means for Microsoft Office, in particular, the upcoming Office 2008. However, I’m not sure that’s really framing it correctly. I don’t think iWork […]

For this column, I thought I’d take a look at a product that I’ve previously not been impressed with, namely Zimbra. Zimbra, or more correctly, the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, is a groupware product, ala Exchange, Domino, Kerio, etc. It does calendaring, email, contacts, etc. Probably the big differentiators between Zimbra and the other products I […]

Taking a step back from the iPhone, I wanted to look at the implications of two articles that have shown up recently in the Mac web. The first, from CNET, entitled “Mac desktops are ‘smarter money,’ says CIO,” and the second, “Mac Attack! An enterprise PC shop switches to Apple,” from Computerworld. The first article […]

Yes, I got an iPhone. This should come as no surprise, but just in case, yes I got one, on the release date. In fact, I was about 14th in line. No, I did not sit there all day. I got to my local AT&T store about 2:30, kicked back with a new book, fresh […]

So, at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, which of the following did Steve Jobs not announce will be shipping in Leopard? A) A telepathic interface B) Virtualized OS X C) A Pony Now, perhaps I am a bit too deep into the hyperbole here, but sometimes, I wonder what people expect, and then I realize […]