A Eulogy for the Xserve: May It Rack in Peace

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.

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.

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

"is scheduled to die in the winter of 2011"

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

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

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".