In my experience, there are very few enterprises that run Mac OSX servers as their primary platform. So I don’t see this as having any major impact in the IT market.
Agreed.
It’s almost as if Apple is trying to gracefully bow out of the server market, since it’s not a core competency.
Me neither.
And besides I doubt the average IT guy will bemoan the lack of gui tools noted in the article. All they care about is the command line and scripting anyway.
Apple’s selling point is still it’s “the computer for the rest of us” ie non-computer experts.
The people running servers at IT companies ARE computer experts. These are the guys that install Linux servers without the GUI interface, because they think typing at the command line is so much easier than navagating all those screens with a mouse.
Apple’s design philosophy is 180 degrees opposite of what these guys are looking for.
Apple’s other selling point is, while they may charge you more it’s worth it because of the extra support they provide. If you have any problem with an Apple product, just call support and they’ll have someone there to help you.
Companies that run servers are already paying staff to support their servers (staff that is usually several levels above the Apple support staff in computer expertise), they don’t want to pay extra for Apple support they’ll never use. So they go with generic hardware and a free OS (Linux), which is why Linux is dominating the server market at the moment.
There simply is no market for Apple servers.