[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Lion Server

[Nick Gibbins]

Principally, for AddressBook server. 

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Dr Nicholas Gibbins

On 22 Jul 2011, at 00:51, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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