{"id":68,"date":"2010-11-05T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:26:38","slug":"yougotxserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/11\/05\/yougotxserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac mini Killed the Xserve Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple has published a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/xserve\/pdf\/L422277A_Xserve_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surprisingly frank Xserve obituary<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Since its introduction in the fall of 2009, Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server has become Apple\u2019s most popular server system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>People have been using Mac mini as a server since the original was released. There was a time when Apple might have shunned this sort of \u201cunintended\u201d use, but they straight up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embraced it<\/a>\u00a0last year with the release of Snow Leopard.\u00a0I\u2019d be very interested to see how many Mac mini sales are actually server bundles.\u00a0Great opportunity to recall Microsoft\u2019s famous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidweiss.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mac mini test wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple\u2019s never been in the big-iron commercial server business, but Xserve racks are not uncommon in higher ed research labs. Apple must be confident that those customers won\u2019t be deterred by the Mac Pro form factor (or the mini\u2019s performance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is a testament to Apple\u2019s constant reinvention, even at the height of its success. Forget last month\u2019s earnings call; trim the fat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgemmell\/status\/508439520354304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Gemmell<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has published a\u00a0surprisingly frank Xserve obituary: Since its introduction in the fall of 2009, Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server has become Apple\u2019s most popular server system. People have been using Mac mini as a server since the original was released. There was a time when Apple might have shunned this sort of \u201cunintended\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}