[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Lion Server

[Philip Boulain]

On 21/07/2011 22:33, Jules Field wrote:
> Don't forget that retail Lion costs £20.99. Windows 7 retail costs 
> about £200.

You can get OEM Win7 quite legally for ~£75, and pay-for Windows updates 
are less frequent, though. (Especially since they made it so tempting to 
skip Vista entirely! ;) )

> And the server version has another 0 on the end and doesn't come with 
> any of the products included with Lion Server, which Microsoft make 
> you spend many more 000s on.

Microsoft make you pay for Samba, Postfix, Mailman, MySQL, Tomcat and 
Apache? :)

> £55.98 for a server box of anything sounds a very very good deal to 
> me. :-)

My question is why you need a server box (in the "group policies and 
software RAID" sense) of anything for a PVR/home fileserver...?

-- 
Phil