[Fed-Talk] Enterprise Mac | InfoWorld | Apple Xserve: The final review | November 9, 2006 10:16 PM | By Tom Yager
[Fed-Talk] Enterprise Mac | InfoWorld | Apple Xserve: The final review | November 9, 2006 10:16 PM | By Tom Yager
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Enterprise Mac | InfoWorld | Apple Xserve: The final review | November 9, 2006 10:16 PM | By Tom Yager
- From: Dave Hale <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:44:24 -0500
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/11/apple_xserve_th.html
An objective reviewer's job is to find fault, and I've done my job. But the sum of Xserve's flaws is overwhelmed by the system's unique leading-edge, user and administrator-centric engineering. Xserve is far better than the commodity server that the Intel x86 market expects. But what really blasts Apple's competition is OS X Server. The present Tiger (10.4) release is more than a match for much more expensive commercial Linux, and far more capable out of the box than Windows 2003 Server. Early next year, OS X Server Leopard (10.5) will transform Apple's already industry-leading Xserve, including the model reviewed here, into an unimaginably feature-rich native 64-bit server platform. And guess what? When you buy it, you're done paying for it, and all of the services you have to buy, build or rent with Windows, Linux or pay-as-you-go service outsourcing, are installed on every Xserve's boot drive. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer Xserve's buy once, run forever approach.
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