New Xserve in a tower configuration?

We are a small publishing production company that has thousands of files that are currently living on 2 NAS boxes. These boxes are starting to have issues since they were never designed to be used as servers (which we are doing). This worked fine when there were only 2 employees working off the boxes. Now there are 4 employees cranking on them and we are starting to have production issues. We run both Macs and PCs and have decided to get a mac server since 90% of our work is done on the mac. I know nothing about mac servers and our contract IT guy is, of course, a windows junky and is proving to be of little help. I have been reading about the new XServer that is not yet available. I can't find anything about tower configurations, only rack mounts. Is this the only way the mac servers are available now? We have limited space. I know I can get an older server but I'd really prefer to stay away from buying hardware that is no longer in production.

Stephanie Kuhns-
Ya gotta love the battles with the windows junky. Maybe you can win one here.
A lot of small businesses exist on so-called "Servers" cobbled together from what was cheap and available at the time. I know of a business still running on a couple of G4 towers and another one that is atill running on some fairly old Sun boxes. But I digress.
You can run the XServer software on a number of different Apple platforms shown at the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/specs.html
So basically the answer to whether or not you can run OSXServer on a tower is yes.
This page is an excellent place to start digging for information: http://www.apple.com/support/macosxserver/
The Xeon-based server should be out soon.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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