news.com.com— "Apple Computer showed off its new Xserve server, a model that uses two dual-core Xeon processors and that's due to ship in October, at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Aug. 16"
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The great thing about Xserve's is that if you buy one it comes with unlimited licenses. That's one of the most expensive upkeeps on a Windows server is.
@mobilehavoc,I would disagree. I think it boils down to applications; if you're running apps or a server than should do OSX and you have a ton of apple clients, then this server is the one for you.What I think is particularly clever of them was that with the RAID array that they sell, they made it compatible with Dell front ends. We just recently implemented it for our SAN and it performs really, really well even with Dells for the front ends. I'm considering it for our next server upgrade, but not for looks, but rather performance for the price.--pete
I still fail to understand why you'd want to use an xserve... OSX is a desktop OS, and it works pretty good at that, but it's got *TERRIBLE* threading performance... the sort of thing that servers need.You'd have to be a pretty clouded mac-zealot to think xserve is a better idea than a sun or commodity linux server(posted from a mac, btw)
1. Yes they are2. Ur, they aren't actually more expensive. Look up the prices.3. Silly answer. Lots of server perform several functions, Mac based or not.4. Yes it is5. You can use GUI or command line. The GUI respects the command line interface, and usually updates the second you make a command line change. 6. Well, it depends on what you're doing. Work within the "vendor" world, and you'll use nothing but the GUI, just like with any other server OS.7. They run quite cool actually. The shift to Intel has allowed this.8. I very rarely see the beach ball, especially with a decent amount of RAM. Mac OS X caches everything for speed!9. Of course get a support agreement. No one would run a sever in a mission critical position without one.Of course, if you don't like Mac OS X (and you sound like you're biased against it), you can run Windows or Linux. Great hardware, at a great price, and the OS you want.
kanundraAug 18, 2006
The great thing about Xserve's is that if you buy one it comes with unlimited licenses. That's one of the most expensive upkeeps on a Windows server is.
aslan72Aug 18, 2006
@mobilehavoc,I would disagree. I think it boils down to applications; if you're running apps or a server than should do OSX and you have a ton of apple clients, then this server is the one for you.What I think is particularly clever of them was that with the RAID array that they sell, they made it compatible with Dell front ends. We just recently implemented it for our SAN and it performs really, really well even with Dells for the front ends. I'm considering it for our next server upgrade, but not for looks, but rather performance for the price.--pete
braininajarAug 18, 2006
I still fail to understand why you'd want to use an xserve... OSX is a desktop OS, and it works pretty good at that, but it's got *TERRIBLE* threading performance... the sort of thing that servers need.You'd have to be a pretty clouded mac-zealot to think xserve is a better idea than a sun or commodity linux server(posted from a mac, btw)
funkychikensaysAug 18, 2006
Whats wrong with you people?the title says pictures of the new xserve...these are pictures of the old one..
henryb7318Aug 18, 2006
1. Yes they are2. Ur, they aren't actually more expensive. Look up the prices.3. Silly answer. Lots of server perform several functions, Mac based or not.4. Yes it is5. You can use GUI or command line. The GUI respects the command line interface, and usually updates the second you make a command line change. 6. Well, it depends on what you're doing. Work within the "vendor" world, and you'll use nothing but the GUI, just like with any other server OS.7. They run quite cool actually. The shift to Intel has allowed this.8. I very rarely see the beach ball, especially with a decent amount of RAM. Mac OS X caches everything for speed!9. Of course get a support agreement. No one would run a sever in a mission critical position without one.Of course, if you don't like Mac OS X (and you sound like you're biased against it), you can run Windows or Linux. Great hardware, at a great price, and the OS you want.