The MacBooks, the Airs, iMacs and Mac Pros are all gaining market share but why is Apple's solid OS+hardware combo not doing well in the enterprise and hosting industry? Just look at the Apple XServe -- it's a monster of a server. Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown†5400 3.0GHz 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM (fully buffered DIMM) memory Mac OSX Server v10.5 Leopard 64bit Up to 3 Terabytes SATA HDD storage In my 6 years doing business in the hosting industry, I haven't really bumped into a data center which offers Apple XServe. My curiosity was answered when I visited the Apple website and tried to order a server. Then there's that discussion on the latest TWiT 158 podcast: Leo Laporte: "You'd be crazy to run an Apple server. I don't know why you would run an Apple server." Jim Louderback (CEO of Revision3, producer of Diggnation): "Don't get me started on that. We bought an Apple SAN and it's the worst product ever. This is where the Dell, IBM and Microsoft take points off of Apple. Read more in our articles including "Why is Apple not winning the Server Market?" and "Apple iPhone 12, 12 mini in Purple now official".
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Apr 24, 2020The MacBooks, the Airs, iMacs and Mac Pros are all gaining market share but why is Apple's solid OS+hardware combo not doing well in the enterprise and hosting industry? Just look at the Apple XServe -- it's a monster of a server.
Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown†5400 3.0GHz 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM (fully buffered DIMM) memory Mac OSX Server v10.5 Leopard 64bit Up to 3 Terabytes SATA HDD storage In my 6 years doing business in the hosting industry, I haven't really bumped into a data center which offers Apple XServe. My curiosity was answered when I visited the Apple website and tried to order a server. Then there's that discussion on the latest TWiT 158 podcast: Leo Laporte: "You'd be crazy to run an Apple server.
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