It's been a month since this thread started, I've stumbled on Cook's quote a number of places since, and it dawned on me at some point that it sounded like a politician addressing/not-addressing a constituent's concern. "An important part of our line-up" could mean anything, from a suped-up Apple TV / entertainment box, to mashing it with the MP into some rehash of the G4 Cube.
I have 50+ users all on Mac and sooo don't want to bring Windows into my data center (they build their stuff with massive enterprises in mind, so it's bloated and buggy). But if Apple doesn't do something, REALLY soon, I'll have to. As it is, this week I had to hook up an OWC RAID chassis to an old MBP run replace my almost-dead xserve backup server. I won't do that with a live production machine and I won't shell out what Apple charges (even for a mini, considering its specs) for three-year-old technology.
Sorry, second IPA after a long week and I'm venting, but this is getting ridiculous. My staff will not be sharing our projects with partners & clients via iCloud for more reasons than I care to express right now. I need infrastructure. And if I have to bring more Windows into my server room to do it (bad enough I needed an AD Domain Controller) it's only a matter of time before I start adding Win workstations to the mix.
Jeff