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Xserve Outside the Reality Distortion Field

Posted by pudge on from the it-is-mac-os-not-macos-dammit dept.

Gentoo69 writes "OSNews has a comparison of the Xserve with other 1U servers. How does the Apple offering stands up against the competition?" (Hint: pretty well.)

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  1. The conclusion: inconclusive by foobar104 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Read the article for some great detailed information, but don't bother trying to skip to the bottom to see the conclusions. There really aren't any. The Xserve is more expensive than some servers, and less than others. If you want to compare Xserve with Mac OS X Server to an Intel-based box with Windows 2000 Server, Xserve is a lot cheaper. If you compare it to a box with Linux, Xserve is about the same or a little bit more. Strangely, if you compare it to a Sun, Xserve is a lot more expensive. Which seems wrong, somehow....

  2. Re:won't replace windows by pmz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with comparing OS X with an intel server running windows is that companies buying windows servers are most likely tied to MS for some reason (.NET). I don't see the Xserve competing with a wintel box at all.

    The Apple servers do compete directly with wintel servers. As time passes, there are more and more people looking to sever their dependencies on Microsoft software, and one outlet is the new Apple servers (or Linux/Intel, or Solaris/SPARC, etc.). Basically, anything that is "the way out" of the Microsoft-only business infrastructure is legitimate competition.

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  3. Is it yet another Mac advocacy site? by inkswamp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hate to say it, but this site reeks of blind Mac devotion. I'm not trolling. I'm a Mac user too, but even so, I really hate Mac advocacy sites and would hope that the moderators here on the Slashdot Apple site are savvy enough to weed these out. I could be wrong about this site, but that's my gut instinct after browsing it a little.

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  4. What XServe has that others don't: by bsartist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Two words: Avie Tevanian. He's the man behind Mach - the microkernel at the heart of OS/X. Mach has had good clustering and distributed computing support from day zero.

    Think about it. With relatively little effort, Apple could build a 64-cpu rack-mounted Mac. Any app that uses Mach threads - that is, any multi-threaded, native (Cocoa or Carbon) OS/X app - would be able to take advantage of them.

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