Veerle's blog

None of our Macs at Duoh! have joined the G5 world yet, but that’s now about to change since we have ordered an Xserve G5 to replace our aging G4 server. The server has been on order since the beginning of February. Yesterday Apple released a press release that they started shipping the Xserve to customers. I have no clue when it will arrive here in Belgium since the US will probably be first. The Virginia Tech cluster has ordered 1.100 of these and I can imagine that Apple will make that a priority. I know that my dealer Macline has several Xserve’s on back-order. It seems that this is a much wanted item.

The server will be used for file, print and web development. It will also host our company’s extra-net. With Apache on it together with MySQL and PHP this will be a great new toy to play with ;-) I’m already curious in its speed and how cool the packaging will be, because as most Mac users know, unpacking is part of the fun if you buy a Mac.

It could very well mean that even this blog and [url=http://www.duoh.com]http://www.duoh.com[/url] will eventually be hosted on a Xserve in the future.