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What the Xserve EOL means to us…
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Apple provided the Promise solution when the XRaid was discontinued.
That solution fulfilled the needs immediately.The solution(s) they have supplied for the XServe do not.
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[Jerry Hofmann] “If history repeats itself, seems to me that Apple came up with an alternative to the xserve Raid when it went away, and they could easily do a deal with someone to create a server which is compatible too?”
Exactly Apple must be prepping the iRack for product launch. Introducing the iRack Apples new Rack Mounted Server.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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At any rate, I don’t think the story here is over, and Apple is mulling over what to do here. I just can’t see them wanting to lose customers for all those stations in the server environment.
Jerry
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[Jerry Hofmann] “Apple came up with an alternative to the xserve Raid when it went away,”
Yes, Promise storage and Xserve RAID EOL were announced in the same news release. This gave customers an immediate alternative – not a good alternative – but it made clear Apple’s commitment to Xsan.
If Apple thinks a MacPro is a server alternative they are sadly mistaken. If they plan on announcing PC server support for OSX Server later, then I question their marketing smarts. Do they think people will walk back across that charred bridge? I suppose, but clearly not the way to do it.
Raise your hand if anybody thinks the control freaks that run Apple would be at all interested in supporting hardware they can’t control?
John Heagy
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Personally, I think this is a sign of things to come.
With the way the trend is going, I’m would not be surprised if they abandon Final Cut Studio by NAB next year. By then they would be rolling out iMovie 8 HD or something to replace it. Clearly the development of the enterprise/pro division has been sidetracked, if not slowly being abandoned. I’m not sure how much money Apple is making from their Pro products, but I am sure it is way lower than their profit margins from the consumer based products. They are fighting a bigger fight in the iOS front with Android making alot of headway this year, and I’m sure that is not something they will take sitting down. So naturally, all efforts will be focused there, and that is unfortunate for the pro market.
With the Adobe CS5 speed and integration presenting a very appealing alternative to FCP, I think we might be seeing alot of pros shifting these next few months.
My 2 cents.
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Try using Encore to make a Bluray. If you do one thing Encore doesn’t like you will have to start the project from scratch to get it to work. I have to double the price of building Blurays in Encore to not lose my shirt when I quote a Bluray project. I won’t be going to any Adobe suite anytime soon with the experiences I have had with Encore!
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Ey Dave, been using Encore for several projects for Blu-Ray authoring, running fine so far. Haven’t had any authoring or encoding issues. I’m running it on a PC though.
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