[nkassis]

"If Apple wants to be taken seriously as a server software vendor'

I really think they don't want to. They've never cared about anything related to businesses using OS X for servers or even good desktop management.

[illumin8]

You're right, but there are Pro users that want a server to farm out Final Cut rendering and other such tasks. That was the target market for Xserve.

A market still does exist for Apple servers - a small one. This market would be best served by virtualization of OS X Server.