Apple Developer Center Outage Fixed 'Remote Code Execution' Flaw

[tommyminahan]

Apple's server farm hardware includes:

• HP rack servers
• Teradata Extreme Data Appliances -
• NetApp FAS6200 Series Enterprise Storage

These run either:

• Solaris or
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux or its free clone: CentOS Linux or
• SUSE Linux 10, SP3 - which comes with the Teradata Extreme Data Appliances

The bug that took down Apple's developer servers are in Linux or Solaris or the database software used in the Teradata Extreme Data Appliances or Apple's custom applications for their Developer Center.

Thus, whatever was corrected won't apply to Mac OS X.

Could apple not just use the core kernel of OSX? they don't need a full gui.. And they could theoretically write the code for the HP servers...

but yeah, its most likely some kind of linux.

 

[Inconsequential]

They could but why?

Linux is used around the world for web hosting and is well supported and documented.

Re-writing it all to work on OS X is a pointlessly costly exercise.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it springs to mind.

(PS: Security flaws don't count, everything has flaws.)

 

[Quapps]

8 days outage? It was still offline for me almost 5 weeks later! Terrible support from Apple!

 

[WestonHarvey1]

They could but why?

Linux is used around the world for web hosting and is well supported and documented.

Re-writing it all to work on OS X is a pointlessly costly exercise.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it springs to mind.

(PS: Security flaws don't count, everything has flaws.)

There's nothing to re-write. OS X is UNIX.

They use what they use because the other guys are dedicated enterprise UNIX vendors.

And no, that doesn't bode well for OS X in the enterprise. Apple doesn't eat their own dog food there, so neither should anyone else.

 

[SPUY767]

This is quite unlikely. My educated guess points to server software (WebObjects?) or software running on top of it. Besides Apple has been reported to be using primarily Solaris for internet services.

I doubt very seriously that they're still using WebObjects, the last stable release I can remember was in 2008, and even as a former WebObjects user I wouldn't touch it with a stick now compared to some of the better web frameworks out there.