A Eulogy for the Xserve: May It Rack in Peace

[ugh]

http://db.tidbits.com/article/11735

[thehigherlife]

Having worked with Xserves in the past, this article is pretty well formulated. The only thing i disagree with is that they should have moved to a 2U system. Many educational institutions that were running maybe only one or two Xserves did not have 4Us in their rackspace for 2 servers. Small schools only had half racks to begin with.

[TheCondor]

What will Apple serve up Apple's services on? OSX on Mac Pros or just racks and racks of minis?

Or will there be some sort of dense blade chassis?

I see 2 issues that they need to solve, 1) they need more density than 1U, that's just how it seems to be going. 2) They need virtualization.

[DougBTX → TheCondor]

Apple can install their own OS on any hardware they like. Including virtual hardware.

[swores]

"is scheduled to die in the winter of 2011"

I thought it was scheduled to die on January 31st?

[pmjordan → swores]

I can't spot the contradiction. Pretty sure the northern hemisphere is implied.

[swores → pmjordan]

Hmm, not sure why my brain worked like that.

I live in the UK, so January is very much still in "Winter", but for some reason when someone says "Winter 2011" I think of it as the same as "Q4 2011".