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   From: lloydparsons@me.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Steve de Mena  wrote:   
      
   > On 8/17/12 12:21 PM, Lloyd wrote:   
   >   
   > > I don't pretend to know why Apple got out of the server market, nor do I   
   > > actually care.  But while you can stuff Windows server and Linux in a   
   > > server role with pretty pee-poor equipment, and unfortunately many do,   
   > > real servers are not nearly as cheap as the Apple one was in most cases.   
   >   
   > How do you define "real servers"?   
   >   
   > Do you have experience buying or administering "real servers" in the   
   > enterprise sphere?   
   >   
   > Apple's secrecy, lack of 5 year product roadmaps, etc... they were   
   > dead in the enterprise from the get go, regardless of cost.   
   >   
   > Steve   
      
   John wasn't talking of actual servers, just his shitboxes with network   
   OS's on them.   
      
   No, I didn't do enterprise servers.  But I did sell, install, configure   
   and service servers in many schools and small businesses.  The majority   
   were Compaq servers with lots of redundancy built in and hot swap drives   
   and boards so taking a server down was almost a never occuring thing.   
      
   And no, Apples Xserve's wouldn't have fit the bill in those schools,   
   although they could have in some small businesses.   
      
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