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Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
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Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question


  • Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
  • From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:32:30 -0700
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question

Allan,
	That's easy. Just go to the App Store and buy the Server application. It's installed after installing Lion client anyway.


On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Marcus, Allan B wrote:

> 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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