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Xserve: 'first bid' for government business

updated 02:55 pm EDT, Fri May 31, 2002

 
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Apple's new Xserve represents the "first bid for federal data center business," according to Federal Computer Week. Both pricing and software availability are noted as potential pitfalls for entering the server market: "the $3,000 starting price for Xserve is actually very competitive in comparison to similarly equipped Unix servers or PC servers running Microsoft Corp. Windows...We've already received dozens of requests for pricing and availability information," according to one reseller. [article date misprinted]


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    cost

    how does it compare when pc servers are running unix or linux? More businesses probably are using that O/S than windoze.

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    Linux, Unix

    My understanding is that if someone builds a box themselves and installs a free OS, then the Xserve is somewhat more expensive. If they buy a box from, say IBM or Dell with Linux on it, Xserve is competitive.

    The hidden cost for Windows servers is the ongoing license fees. But the hidden costs for Linux/Unix is the expense of setup and maintenance. The Xserve answers both of these with no ongoing license fees and operation that does not take a lot of specialized knowledge.

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    Maybe more expensive

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    [B]if someone builds a box themselves and installs a free OS, then the Xserve is somewhat more expensive.[/B]

    It depends on if you have to pay the person building and installing the free os. Most common free oses are a pain in the butt to install, and those who are capable often command quite a fee.

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    Corporate servers

    Most medium-sized to large businesses don't ever build their own equipment or install a free OS. They buy ready-made from vendors.

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    Not only that

    but I have seen other 1U cases and none hold as many drives or as much storage capacity as the XServe. So even if you did save some money on a PC case with unix or Linux, you still need to by those thousand plus dollar drives to come close to the XServe drive capacity. The only benefit would be SCSI mirroring and stripping in the 1U case it self as Apples will do one or the other but not both. But hey that is what 3U or 4U drive cases are for and the XServe can use a SCSI PCI card :)

    And there is no word yet on whether Apple 4U 14 drive case wil support raided mirror and stripped onteh drive at the same time? I think it will because it has dual CPU's in teh case to drive the 14 drives. 7 drives per CPU.

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    March 27th?

    Is it Mozilla, or is the article actually published on March 27th...sounds like they had advance notice of the servers...they weren't announced till the May Developers conference!

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