Now my experience is with 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 server. Panther and Tiger may be different. And I probably shouldn't tell you this.
But AFAICT, the client restriction ONLY applies to AppleShare. Not to any other services (mail, web , print, ftp, samba, nfs, ldap, whatever). After all, it would be very difficult to impose such a universal restriction on all these open-source packages, however crafty your management software was.
Now of course for organisations with many classic Mac clients (OS 9 or earlier) that's an important restriction. But for organisations without classic Mac clients, who cares? Other clients (UNIX, OS X, Windoze, Linux) don't need AppleShare and at least from Jag Server onwards (the earlier versions were - frankly - a bit flaky) all services are available via samba or an open protocol. Why buy the unlimited client version when the ten-Appleshare-client version does it all for half the price? Apple may not have intended it this way, but this seems to be the way it is.
Which makes a ten-client OS X server licence outstanding value. Even more outstanding if you can run it on old unsupported hardware, as we can - although I'd question the wisdom of running anything mission-critical on an unsupported configuration.
If you know different, do please say so.
I suppose Apple might revise this policy worldwide between now and Tiger's release on Friday, but I guess that's unlikely...
rgds
Gerald WW
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