Am 22.02.2012 um 22:48 schrieb Joe Greco:
You also don't have to buy a MMS; the lower end Mac mini's are also plenty powerful, can be upgraded similarly, but lack OS X Server and the quad core CPU.
With 10.7, Server is now a $50 add-on download from the Mac App Store, no special hardware required.
I also haven't found it to be particularly *good* at anything; I'm not an OS X guy, and maybe that's part of the problem, but I found Snow Leopard Server a lot more comprehensible in a "this seems really un-Apple- like but at least it makes some sort of sense" way. OS X Lion Server feels like someone just bolted on random bits of server management stuff. If you've ever managed a server with a poorly integrated control panel, it reminds me a little of that. I believe that there are plenty of people who ditch OS X entirely and do other things with them. I wish ESXi would run on them. I could see *uses* for that. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.