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Does Apple want to be in the server room? Can Apple make money in the server room? I think the answer to both of those questions is probably no.

• sp332 15y ago
  Apple made a serious bid in the server space before, but it seems dead now. Remember the Xserve? http://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/hardware.html http://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/hardware.html
  • sophacles 15y ago
    My understanding of Xserve was that it was less "server space" and more back-office. I know the back office runs on servers, but server-space makes me think of racks of machines in a big server room or data center. I always felt Xserve was just targeting small offices (design companies and the like) that were already apple shops, rather than serious "grown up" servers.
    • sp332 15y ago
      You may be right in general, but I remember they made a big deal about large server clusters and big-iron, bioinformatics stuff for a while.