I felt this coming a few months ago. It seemed pretty clear that the Xserve line was getting much harder to find on store.apple.com.

The fact that they are oriented more to quantity-1 consumer sales and stuff like iTunes and app commissions is nothing new. The lack of stuff like laptop docking stations and crappy iMac ergonomics made it clear that they are not aiming at business customers. iPads? Great idea until you want to buy 1000 of them for a vertical mobile app and have to deal with 1000 AT&T phone bills. Not.

So, what do we say, Arrivederci?