“Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server features several new facilities that will sit well in Apple’s core server markets of education, creative audio/visual media and small businesses. And it also scales up well to corporate installations. Like the client version, it majors on 64-bit performance to improve security and address huge amounts of memory. In SPEC benchmarks, Apple has shown that v10.6 Server is up to twice as fast than 10.5 in key operations such as file serving,” Harrison reports.
“This new Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server supports Windows PCs well with email, calendars and address books all available to networked PCs through a modern web interface; and Macs additionally through built-in apps such as Mail, iCal and Address Book,” Harrison reports. “Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server sells with an unlimited client license for £399. There are manifold Windows Server packages on sale, with a greatly varying number of client licenses either included or requiring to be paid for separately. Compared to such options with their labyrinthine license agreements that limit how many computers can be served and what hardware it can be installed on, this is a cheap and effective server solution”
“We found Snow Leopard Server to be a powerful but simple to use server solution, with the stability and power of Unix, topped with an intuitive interface familiar from Apple’s accessible Mac OS X client operating system. The adoption of open standards, along with a focus on technologies that well support the company’s expanding iPhone platform and media lab technologies, provides useful advantages over competing products. Snow Leopard Server’s extensibility and attractive pricing system alone may seal the deal, especially in education, publishing and media creation settings,” Harrison reports.
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