Boy, would I feel sad if I had just bought an X-Serve.
Somehow I wasn't surprised that Apple decided to discontinue it's server product. The company has been all about iPhone, iPad and other consumer devices. And it has never really seriously marketed X-serve, or it's other pro products for that matter. However, we can't call X-Serve "a hobby product" for a number of reasons. Number one reason would be that this platform has been adopted by a large amount of pro users all over the world. These users and enterprises have made commitment to this platform. Now, they've got some thinking to do.
As Macworld article mentions, the communication about the discontinuation has been poor at best from Apple's side. Mac Mini might be a nice little home media server, but I wouldn't buy that for anything serious, redundancy requiring task. You might be able to make Jerry-rig out of couple of those and achieve some redundancy via that method, but enterprise customers are unlikely to go through that.
So my question is, now that Apple has ejected it's dedicated hardware, what's going to happen to Snow Leopard Server?
And if this trend continues, what's the fate of Mac Pro?
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