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Xserve Competes With High-End Unix Servers
wayneh writes "There is a great article at ITworld.com about how Apple's Xserve is finding its way to high-end server vendors. The vendors who traditionally sold Sun and IBM servers are now looking into and stocking the Xserve as their clients become curious about the system. It'll be interesting to see how well the Xserve does among its more traditional competitors."
Congratulations, you're not the target market. AFAIK, Apple's trying to compete with Dell, IBM, HP, etc. not with Joe Blow white box vendor down the street. I believe that most of the hardware price difference goes away if you compare only national brands and in a few configurations, the X-Serve is cheaper.
I always thought that the largest segment of users would be Windows refugees who use it for file and print services in unlimited license mode. For that scenario (and there are lots of people who need this), the XServe is *much* cheaper while the administrative ease means you don't need to radically upgrade your IT department skills.