01-11-2012, 03:28 AM
I wouldn't do it for a business. Apple will provide drivers and updates for OS X, but you can't ensure that they'll provide drivers for Windows indefinitely. For what you'd pay for a basic Mac Pro you could get a really nice Dell PowerEdge server with redundant power supplies, 6-disk RAID storage, quad core and probably 8GB or more of RAM. Dell PCs are commodity products and you get what you pay for but their servers are pretty nice in my experience. I have 6 Dell servers that have been powered on almost non-stop for between 6-10 years. I've had a few drive failures, but the drives are hot swappable so I was able to rebuild the array while it was still in use and the servers never went down.