Enterprise Desktop Alliance conducts survey on the Xserve's end

What i posted in the survey :

No but i think that i "might" have in the future. I feel that the removal of the xserve damages apple in many ways:

1) Apple is a $300 billion computer company but no longer even has a single proper server
2) Many people who purchased 1 xserve probably purchased a few hundred imacs etc.. along with it.. all those sales might now be lost
3) Apple is continuously messing with things and changing its mind, more and more giving it a reputation never to be relied upon. It will change features or remove them at the drop of the hat, remove entire products (eg xserve), drop platform and software suport (eg java), change api's very readily, drop suport for older product with little warning, make legal changes banning the use of certain things etc...
although many consumers may put up with this for a while, whilst apple products remain ahead of the game, if the gap closes or the customer is a real business they will stay clear of apple and all their nonsense.

Things like dropping an entire server line, with no viable replacement, dropping an entire development environment like java in some tiny notice on their site with no warning and with out stating there will be an alternate replacement (thought im 100 % assuming that oracle will now produce a mac JVM ) are not acceptable behaviour

The correct way to go about business is when the impact will be huge AND negative, giving people a proper stament, doing it long in advance and providing a viable and preferably much much better alternative

In the case of java this should be to announce oracle will make a BETTER jvm available as a download and with the xserve announce that it is now possibly to run OS X Server it in vmware on Oracle / Sun etc.. hardware

This will (unnecessarily) damage apple in the long run

I use 12 Xserves every day, 2006 and later models... I might have to buy from 3rd parties till they sell out, and then off to ebay when I need new servers.

By mentioning the survey, which is still on going and was sent to IT admins only, the result will now be polluted with Apple fanboys and/or those interested in winning $50 gift certificate. Way to go, TUAW!

So much of the corporate server structure is virtual now. One server actually runs 3-4 virtual servers at least. If I remember right, OSX server is the only Mac product allowed to be virtualized on non-mac hardware. I could be wrong, but I think that's what the Mac EULA states.