Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Steve Jobs chucks Apple server biz from pram • The Register

If the iPad is the new client, the traditional Mac desktop (running Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server) may as well be the new server…

Like any other billionaire — or three-year-old — Steve Jobs does exactly what he wants to do, and stops doing it when he's no longer interested. Last week, Jobs pulled the plug on Xserve machines, and though companies that depend on Apple's servers and related Xsan2 clustered file systems may have been a bit shocked when it happened, they should remember the on-again, off-again history of Apple in the server racket.

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The server business for Apple has always been a bit of a drag, although there certainly was some enthusiasm in the years after the launch in May 2002 of the Initial PowerPC-based Xserves. At the time, Apple CEO Jobs tried to reassure customers that the prior years of short-lived server products were behind the company. "I look at that as a dream while [Apple] was in a coma," Jobs explained, almost in apology.

Maybe this is one of those dreams within a dream moments and Apple never truly woke up?

Steve Jobs chucks Apple server biz from pram • The Register

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