Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
- From: "Marcus, Allan B" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:26:34 -0600
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
So say in Sept. I buy a Mac Pro with Lion. Then in Oct I want to make it a
Lion server. How?
On 6/7/11 9:56 AM, "Dave Schroeder" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Link, Peter R. wrote:
>>
>>> This sounds to me like the $50 price (+$30 for Lion client) is an
>>>upgrade price from Snow Leopard server. This changes everything. I
>>>emailed Apple using the web page contact and will wait to hear what
>>>they say but if anyone at WWDC can corner a salesrep, please ask them
>>>to confirm this. I hope I'm wrong on this cost. It would be a great
>>>upgrade cost for existing users but would keep new server users from
>>>buying this package.
>>
>> Yep. Here is ars technica on it.
>>
>> Lion Server will be an extra $50 via the Mac App Store
>>
>>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/lion-server-will-be-an-extra-50
>>-via-the-mac-app-store.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
>>
>> Todd
>
>Ars doesn't have any inside information; that's just their (reasonable)
>interpretation of publicly-available information.
>
>The truth is that the public splash pages for both Lion and Lion Server
>do technically make it sound like Snow Leopard or Snow Leopard Server is
>a prerequisite (from a license perspective) for Lion and Lion Server,
>respectively.
>
>This appears similar to the situation with Snow Leopard where, while it
>was $29, the license was technically for an upgrade from Leopard, leaving
>Mac OS X 10.4 users seemingly with no direct upgrade path or SKU for Snow
>Leopard.
>
>- Dave
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