Dan Lacher

There is a nice article over on ZDNet showing a comparision of Sun Fire X4500 to Xserve RAID. A couple of key quotes pulled out below but read the entire post for yourself.

In other words real results with the ZFS/X4500 combination easily exceed Apple's marketing claims - and you get two thirds more disk for $4,000 less.

The Apple press, of course, thinks the XServe Xeon a great success - but Apple went from market leading performance for less than Dell and Sun to market trailing performance for more than Dell and Sun; and, you know, With success like that, who needs failure?

For what it's worth.