[masklinn]

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

They don't. If they did, they wouldn't drop the xserve.

> they would be far better off to allow virtualization of OS X Server only and let people run it on HP/IBM/Dell/Oracle/Sun x86 hardware.

This suggestion is utterly moronic. Once again, Apple is a hardware vendor. OSX exists for the sole purpose of selling Apple hardware. The only reason they sold (and still sell, see Mac Mini Server and Mac Pro server) OSX-based server machines is to support whole networks of Apple hardware.