I'm not at all surprised by the news, it always seemed like Apple were simply sticking their toe into the enterprise market as opposed to jumping right in. One question I do have, is where does this leave XSAN on OSX nodes? I wonder if the future solution will be XSAN on the nodes and Stornext on linux servers.

We had a bunch of XServes running our production system, and other than looks and the fact that they ran OSX, they were outclassed in almost every other way by the Dell's and HP's that surrounded them. The majority of which were almost half the price. We shut the old system down, but I still have a pair of them running our playout system. But it's probable they'll get replaced in the next 12 months, by a windows-based system (shudder).

Of course this could be heralding the beginning of the end. I already have a sinking feeling that Apple will be pulling out of the pro video market in the next year or so. My nightmare is that we'll end up in a situation where we have to jailbreak our Apple laptops to run the software that we want. Thank god for Linux!