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SuperSite Blog Daily Update: November 5, 2010

Nov. 5, 2010 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

I had to leave the house before 5:00 am today to catch a train to New York City. I'm heading there for a Microsoft reviewer's workshop--not sure yet if I can say for which product(s)--and will be in and out pretty quickly, and back home by dinner. Anyway, that explains the early start. If I don't fall asleep sometime today it will be a miracle. Currently on the Amtrak en-route...

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Nice little Amtrak delay thanks to a "line down" and the fact that Amtrak doesn't own the tracks, so the other trains got to go first. So I was an hour late. It's a Microsoft Lync workshop, BTW.

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Apple killed its XServe servers. I know, I know. They make servers?

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Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend in the US. This seems about as late as its ever been.

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meason
on Nov 5, 2010

So what is the iStore going to run on now?  when teims comes for apple to build up its stores again I hope they are not going to run it on a bunch of mac mini or pro servers.......

Any server farm the size of apples I hope is 100% rackmount.

gavers
on Nov 5, 2010

I don't believe Apple has ever used Xserves or Mac OS X Server for their web operations. iTunes (and its various stores), Apple Store online and MobileMe all run on some other hardware and some other OS. Since they're all built a-top WebObjects my first instinct is Sun hardware.

Just take a look at the promotional sites for Xserve and OS X Server, neither of them same anything along the lines of "It's so great we use it for our servers!"

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