Top 5 Reasons Google Should/Shouldn`t Buy Apple - 4. Overlap Means Overdone (
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As much as press and analysts have hammered Microsoft over what it
will do with Yahoo's Zimbra assets, Google would have to consider what
to do with Xserve and Xsan, Apple's enterprise server and file server
technologies, respectively. While Zimbra's collaboration tools are
redundant at Microsoft, Google has no reason to sell servers or
storage. Moreover, internal use of these products in Google's data
centers is also out of the question. Xserve and Xsan are proprietary
products, and Google employs Hadoop and other open-source applications
for its distributed data center operations. Xserve and Xsan appear to
be the odd men out.