Apple Considering Discontinuing More Server-Focused Products?
Apple's
early November announcement that it will discontinue its Xserve line of rackmountable servers at the end of this month has
caused turmoil among the product's fans, while Steve Jobs has suggested that
poor sales were the reason for the decision. But in a
follow-up report today,
Hardmac claims that the Xserve discontinuation may only be the beginning of a move by Apple to pare down its storage- and server-focused offerings.
According to our sources, the discontinuation of the Xserve by Apple would be only the beginning of an overhaul, which would lead to the disappearance of some professional-orented activities.
Xsan and Final Cut server could be among the programs being discontinued, as Apple's management would be wondering whether to continue to develop and support them in the future.
Looking even further down the line, the report claims that Apple could opt to do away with its Mac OS X Server releases entirely, although the company is still expected to release a server version of Mac OS X Lion later this year.
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