Re: [WinMac] Re: About the Liscencing of Mac OS-X
Richard Hallmark(rhallma1[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:15:48 -0500
John W. McCarthy wrote:
> $499 for "unlimited client license" (Apple Store)
>
>Can anyone realistically expect better than that? Unlimited for crying
>out loud. That is much better than any 30 or 50 or 300 client site license.
If you read carefully you will notice that it means you can connect an
unlimited number of computer to ONE MacOS X Server machine. You can only
install MacOS X Server on ONE machine.
If I wanted to install MacOS Server on all of the say, 50 machines, in my
company, I would need to buy 50 copies.
Why I would want to do this is beyond me since MacOS 8.5.1 appears to be
somewhat LESS stable when running Mac Apps under the Blue Box on a
MacOS X Server machine. Personally, I would not let any end user touch
a machine running MacOS X Server - I am happy to let them share files
or web documents from the server, but not work at the server itself.
MacOS X Server is not an upgrade to MacOS 8.5.1 and it is most
emphatically not a workstation operating system. Apple may have some
justification in their position in not including it in the Upgrade
Contract (it is more of a sybling and eventual replacement for
AppleShare IP), but Apple SHOULD include MacOS X itself next fall since
it is the successor to Rhapsody Unified Release.
Rick Hallmark
Hallmark Consulting
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