Re:The Server At Peak X86
by richardwhiuk on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:17AM
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I doubt it. Apple has been systematically withdrawing from the server space for years, and I doubt they are particularly likely to reverse that trend. Servers are relatively low margin with a small brand impact. Apple plays well in consumer electronics where brand has much more of an impact on margin.
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Apple buys generic Intel kit for their datacentres, and did this even when making their own server product.
Consuming your own output isn't good for margins, and like many large-scale providers, you must acknowledge vanity hardware isn't any faster than bare motherboards in a rack. The more bare-bones the better.
The XServe and friends were intended for small-scale deployments. They did a few partnerships to build clusters of them for HPC but that was largely a demonstration, not a target customer base.