After Apple’s decision to discontinue its Xserve line at the end of January (a move which upset many current users of the product), a new rumor is reporting that Apple may be discontinuing other server focused products in the relatively near future. Reports from multiple sources are stating that Apple will be following the end of XServe by scrapping both Final Cut Server and XSan, even more interestingly, the Mac OS X Lion Server will be the last of Apple’s server operating systems. Hardmac, who first broke the story wrote that Apple’s management is currently considering whether to “continue to develop and support [the products] in the future.” Apple is saying that they are committed to continuing to support XServe, hopefully even if these rumors turn out to be true, Appel will continue to support current customers for as long as they need.

If rumors are true, it would signal the end of Apple’s products for server and enterprise customers. As of right now, Apple updates these products and its server-focused software less frequently than the company’s consume and professional-based products. Scrapping support for these products would indicate that Apple plans to put even more emphasis on consumer level products. Steve Jobs himself mentioned that XServe systems simply were not selling. That may also be the case for these other products. We’ll have to wait and see if Xsan, Final Cut Server, and even Mac OS X Server suffer similar fates.

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