On 7-Feb-2007, at 22:02, Bill Cole wrote:
At 6:19 PM -0800 2/7/07, Christopher Bort imposed structure on a
stream of electrons, yielding:
If you're only running 'internet' services (mail, web, ftp), then
you are
absolutely correct. OS X Server is not worth the premium price. It
_is_
worth it, however, if you are in an environment where you need the
other
services included with Server (file services, 'collaboration'
services,
etc.) and you need them to be integrated through Open Directory.
The one thing I am considering shelling out for is just that.
Putting together a small network of machines for a small number of
users gets to be a nuisance fast, particularly if you have users
who want the sort of behavior they've had in enterprise-scale
Novell, Windows, and Solaris environments: one account, same user
experience no matter where they log in, etc.
The main reasons I've considered getting OSXS is network $HOME
directories. As I understand it, theoretically possible with OS X,
but a huge pain.
Top of my list of cool projects I would do with my next bit of free
time (um, yeah, right) is to replicate that without the $500 price
tag for Server. All the parts are there in the open Darwin tree
except for the pretty GUI's and the widgetry they talk to.
Yeah, it's all 'there' but getting to it and getting it setup right
is evidently a bit of an issue. If you ever do do it and get it
working, writeup a howto and send it along, will ya?
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