News - Xserver admins unfazed by Apple’s decision to axe servers

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Survey show many users are loyal, and will stick with current systems for as long as they last.

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Sheeple.

Surely the findings are of significantly less interest than that they found 1200 Xserve users to start with...?:devilish:

So lets get this right, a manufacturer stops building a product but maintains support, and there is surprise when that userbase doesn't go and imediately replace their units with something else?

Anyone else think this is non news but the PR only get a look in because it is Apple?

Nobody is saying they should immediately replace them. However, it is shocking that supposedly professional admins are making no plans to depreciate an abandoned platform. Literally the wording is "stick with current systems for as long as they last", or loosely, 'run 'em into the ground', and then.. what? They're pretty screwed after that.

Which is what admins have alwasy done. Look at the amount of issues from legacy systems there have been over the years. The "Y2K bug" is a prime example. Systems that had had no support for many years were still in use ad running away with no plans to replace them until someone suddenly realised they had a problem and emergency remedial work was actione to correct the problem.

Businesses will replace their Xserve systems when they need to, and they will probably put a plan in place at that point, not now whe things are running smothly, their already tight budgets are under threat and they are probably very short staffed as well.

Only useless admins. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. In this case they're just hoping that the servers will run forever, which is folly.

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

Only useless admins. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. In this case they're just hoping that the servers will run forever, which is folly.

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Agreed

"Failing to plan is planning to fail." - Alan Lakein



I do find it strange how bad IT management is in general. Way too many companies fail to schedule upgrades or have any sort of upgrade plan for the future. It's like they are oblivious to the fact that things progress in the technology industry and as a result production with old systems degrade.

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Originally Posted by ExHail

Agreed

"Failing to plan is planning to fail." - Alan Lakein



I do find it strange how bad IT management is in general. Way too many companies fail to schedule upgrades or have any sort of upgrade plan for the future. It's like they are oblivious to the fact that things progress in the technology industry and as a result production with old systems degrade.

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It's not just IT management that's bad. The staff in general aren't much better. You should have seen some of the muppets that have decent enough looking CV's then turn out to be complete muppets at interview.

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Originally Posted by badass

It's not just IT management that's bad. The staff in general aren't much better. You should have seen some of the muppets that have decent enough looking CV's then turn out to be complete muppets at interview.

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I am not surprised, sometimes I wonder why CV's are bothered with. They are so misleading.

I, unfortunately, have had occasions where I knew more about the workings of a PC than my boss. I needed to explain the difference between binary calculations and metric, he thought the hard drive didn't have as much space as advertised due to OS partitions... He had to double check because he didn't believe me.

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Originally Posted by ExHail

binary calculations and decimal

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Corrected :p

By metric, I think he means SI units.

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Originally Posted by Fraz

Corrected :p

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I think of metric and decimal as the same thing. Metric is based on the decimal number system so both are in reference to the same thing.

Decimal is better, I agree :)