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Why should I listen to anyone who tries to pass of information that is years out of date?

The list was by no means comprehensive, nor was it specified as, or meant to be, up-to-date—nor does the discontinuation of the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative invalidate the information. It was not discontinued because of any failure on the part of Apple. The point is: did or did not Oracle, a major enterprise level business, elect to use Mac OSX, xServes, and xServes RAIDs (I know, Apple has now discontinued the RAID) in their RLCSI?

Why should I listen to anyone who tries to pass of information that is years out of date?

Don't bother. Why should I listen to anyone who makes false—and easily checked—and unsupported claims such as the ones you have tossed out on this thread? Your claims and speculations are far more out of date and ergo devolve into the realm of FUD.

I haven’t pushed any operating system - you on the other had are.

No, you are just criticizing one with assertions of "facts" that are easily researched and disproved.

I maintain the Mac Ping List on Freerepublic. This is a thread about Macs. The topic of this thread is Ars Technica's article on their first impressions –not an in-depth review—of the new unibody 17" MacBook Pro. It is not a thread about UNIX, not enterprise usage of Macs, not your misguided, outdated opinions of Macs. You are attempting to hijack the thread, a practice that is frowned on here at FreeRepublic. Among your false claims and implications on this thread are:

"The left out the minor issue of it not having a user replaceable batter."(sic) (rebutted- article mentions it, but at least you are on topic.)
"If the Apple was of higher quality it would have a better warranty - it doesn’t. Once can determine how much faith a company has in its products by the length of the warranty." (Unsupported assertion of lack of quality in Macs based on spurious logic and your opinion.)
You leave out a major issue with apple and the enterprise - that little issue of them not having a true server class operating system or any server class hardware. (irrelevant strawman and false assertion.)
No macs have lights out management. (false assertion.)
It is impossible to us a mac in a virtualized environment. (false assertion.)
OSx server doesn’t have nearly as much centralized management support as other operating system do. (False assertion.)

When was the last time you actually USED an OS X Mac, or a Mac xServe, or OS X Server? And I mean used not just played around with one.