Liberty Systems & Software

It appears that Apple has finally worked out that they make bad servers and deprecated the Xserve.  Their solution?  Run your server OS on a workstation or mini PC.  Hmmmm....  What's more, their workstation mounted in a rack configuration takes up a whopping 6 RU.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has some interesting comments on the repercussions of Apple's iPad.  What seems ironic to me is that when Palm stopped innovating (shortly after their announcement that they were switching to Linux), the PDA market virtually died - smartphones virtually chewed up the market overnight.  Now, as a spinoff of Apple's entry into the smartphone market, the PDA market looks set to revive.