Death of the Xserve

I have been a apple user since Macintosh Classic. This news regarding the death of the xserve makes me angry. The lack of alternatives from apple is outrageous. They could have phased this out in a less abrupt way, including some solid transition plans to another hardware platform, with a commitment to keep developing the server software. I plan on jumping the apple ship over the next year, selling all my mac computers, servers, and iphones, and switching over to the PC world.

I guess getting angry is not appropriate behavior in the castle of "Camelot".
Aah, if only I had a castle...
Seriously, though, getting angry is entirely appropriate - I am angry too since I have a significant investment in Apple hardware at both the client and server level.
However, getting angry doesn't solve the problem and you need to get past that otherwise you make irrational decisions that cost you dearly (like throwing away a million dollars of investment to build a replacement network on some other vendor's solution in 90 days).
The reality is that Apple do not have a history of going back on such decisions, so what's more important now? Screaming and shouting at Apple hoping they'll change their mind? or working out your medium/long term strategy for dealing with it?
It's not like your network grinds to a halt on February 1st. The worst case is that you can't order any more XServes to grow your network. I don't know what your projected growth rate is, or how many XServes you were planning to add each month, but the inability to add more XServes hardly warrants ripping out your entire infrastructure, does it? including the iPhones for crissakes!?! (unless, of course, you only have one or two systems, but most people at that level aren't overly fussed by the form factor issue).
So that is my issue. Not the fact you're angry (that's understandable). Not the fact that you need to re-evaluate your server side strategy moving forwards (that's necessary). But the fact that you were making a clearly irrational statement that is far beyond the scale of what's appropriate.
At least in my opinion.

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