It isn't the price that really bothers me, its the fact that Apple seems to value secrecy above everything else, even in cases where secrecy makes about 0 sense, like here. I mean, how much would Apple have actually lost if they decided a few months ago to give enterprise users a warning, "We are transitioning away from the XServe RAIDs, for the next 3 months, or while supplies last, we will still sell the RAIDs, but are transitioning to the Promise VTrack RAID system." and sold both side by side for a few months. Instead, Apple has this culture of secrecy for secrecy's sake, and it doesn't seem to matter to them how many customers they alienate, as long as they can maintain secrecy.
That will always be the #1 reason why you will not see Apple's corporate offerings get more than a sliver of the market. After all my experiences with Apple's corporate stuff, I will never EVER recommend an Apple product to be used as a server or anything else for that matter. If they want to play games, they can play games without my money or my customer's money.
I can live with the expense, I can live with the limited selections of workstations, but I cannot live with being unable to plan out more than a week in advance because Apple might arbitrarily change something tomorrow seemingly because they just feel like it.
that really sucks
