IT companies hoping to find a rich vein of new business assisting enterprises in moving away from Apple server hardware after the discontinuation of the XServe may be disappointed with the preliminary results of a survey conducted by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, an industry group that represents such organizations. The survey has found that XServe owners mostly plan to stick with their current machines through the normal replacement cycle, and even then a substation portion plan to shift to other Apple-based alternatives rather than move to Windows or Linux.
