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 12:36:27 -0600
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] WWDC Lion Server question
From: http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/how-to-buy/
"You¹ll need Snow Leopard Server v10.6.6 or later to purchase Lion and
Lion Server from the Mac App Store"
This implied that I will need to have SL Server on the machine first.
On 6/7/11 12:32 PM, "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden> wrote:
>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=r
>>>>ss
>>>>
>>>> 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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