Apple has abandoned the enterprise market
It would appear that Apple has entered into some agreement/truce with Microsoft that for Exchange interfacing and support they would agree to abandon the enterprise market. This would account for their embracing Exchange in their iOS/OSX, adopting the Azure platform for iCloud, abandoning the XServe and MacPro models and neutering the MacMini server OS.
Apple has always sucked at enterprise e.g. MobileMe and iCloud. Their contact manager and calendar is about as lame as a 2nd year programming students semester project. Apple is focusing on what they do best, consumer products, ease of use, high profile, pretty and enterprise is none of these.
It is a shame that this has happened. I am a huge Apple supporter and feel that they have one of the few stable OS's out there e.g. Linux, OSX. This is life. The majority of people at Apple are RICH now and taking on enterprise would interfere with their wine, car, yacht, travel, philanthropy and art collecting activities. What we can hope for is that someone hungry and new will come out of the woods and reinvent enterprise like SugarSync, Boxee, Dropbox. There is a window (pun intended) that has been left open for someone like them to build a truly open source enterprise solution that works with everyone and leaves Apple and MS to the dinosaur playground of the 90's. Apple builds an awesome consumer product and MS builds a great ....? well, half backed enterprise/desktop solutions, that with a team of programmers and sys ops, can support a large corporation.
