As an Apple Consultants Network member who has installed his share of Apple Xserves, I have mixed emotions about Apple’s decision today to pull the plug on the only “real” server that they’ve been selling. On the one hand, Apple hasn’t been selling a lot of the pricey pizza boxes to big business, so it makes sense that Apple would simply re-purpose existing products — the Mac mini and Mac Pro — as servers. On the other hand, I think it sends mixed signals to the enterprise market about Apple’s commitment to business.
Apple Senior World Product Marketing Manager Eric Zelenka stated in a post to the Xsanity forums that Apple is still committed to the server products, technologies, and devices, and that the decision to kill the Xserve has no impact on future Xsan or Mac OS X Server development. I’m wondering if that’s just a lot of marketing-speak to try to calm down admins who have a huge investment in Mac OS X Server, Xsan, and Xserves. According to our own Victor Agreda, who is at MacTech 2010 this week, many Mac IT admins feel that the Mac OS X Server flavor of Mac OS X is safe for the time being. I’m not so sure — read more of my personal thoughts on the next page.
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