“Snow Leopard Server is a tremendous value. It offers a range of features that aid collaboration and mobility for small businesses through enterprises. The improvements in collaborative tools will probably be adopted in education, one of Apple’s core markets. The simple licensing structure and lowered price are enough to make the platform competitive,” Faas reports.
“For organizations that already run in part or entirely on Mac OS X Server, this is a definite upgrade. With so many new technologies and under-the-hood changes, though, you’ll definitely want to spend some time testing and getting to know the new face of Mac OS X Server before making the jump,” Faas reports. “For organizations running on other platforms, Snow Leopard Server’s lower cost and the maturity of so many technologies originally introduced in Leopard Server make it a product to seriously think about, particularly for smaller organizations needing a simple yet powerful option.”
Full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
My Company’s Server is a G3 B&W;Tower running Apple’s Old server solution, ASIP 6.x. It was installed in early 1999 and is still running and works a treat! It has never had any problems. Of course it is now running in the background as an emergency backup file server to the newly installed Mini Snow Leopard Server (Last Week).
The Old G3 server has cost us nothing but the original purchase price of the server… Over a period of 10 years that is an incredible running cost! I am looking forward to similar results from our newest server install. This one cost us right at $1,000. I would never consider a Windows solution for our business.
@ IT Guy.
IT Guy, you’re living in the 90’s and your understanding of the power of OS X Server is vastly lacking. You identified in your post:-
Active Directory- check
Exchange Server- check
Sharepoint Server- check
SQL Server- check
Centrally managed desktop configurations & updates via Group Policy- check
Daily Reporting on Health & Network Status- check
Built in Remote Access to all of the above including remote desktops WITHOUT VPN- check
First, talking SMB. Most businesses don’t need the above. They are all corporate features.
Second, there is the quality, usability and ease of use of the above. Again, for an SMB to complicated. Yes, you could argue that OS X is GUI over top of UNIX and to use configurations that are outside the norm you need to know UNIX, but I can equally state the same for Windows.
Finally, if we talk corporate world, OS X Server comes in one flavour, has the equivalents of all the above, plus a heap more AND has no CAL bullshit pricing. So, for OS X we have:-
Open Directory – check
Mail Server/iCal Server/address book server – check
Granted, there is no real equivalent of Share Point Server from Apple, but in many respects its overkill or underkill – or use a 3rd party Product if you really need it – Most companies and certainly almost all SMB’s don’t.
PostgreSQL – check
Remote Desktop Mngt – check
Health Check reporting – check
Remote management – check
plus…
wiki server – check
podcast server – check
quicktime streaming server – check
mobile access server – check
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