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5 user license question

I know the $499 price tag for Snow Leopard Server includes a 10-user license. However, does this include a license to install and use Snow Leopard on each of those 10 machines? Or is it just a license for the OS on those machines to connect to Snow Leopard Server?

Dan

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6), 2.53 Ghz, 4 GB, Snow Leopard & Vista Home Premium; iPhone 3G 16GB

Posted on Dec 19, 2009 11:43 PM

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Niel

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Dec 19, 2009 11:48 PM in response to dantrimble

I know the $499 price tag for Snow Leopard Server includes a 10-user license.

It's an unlimited client license. This applies to the number of simultaneously connected AFP and SMB clients only; Mac OS X Server itself can only be installed on one computer or emulation image per license.

Licensing of the client version is independent from the Mac OS X Server license.

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Dec 19, 2009 11:49 PM in response to Niel

Meaning there is no included installation license for Snow Leopard on the 10 machines? So I'd be looking at $499 for the server OS, and then $129 for each client machine that needs to run Snow Leopard?

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Niel

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Dec 19, 2009 11:59 PM in response to dantrimble

Meaning there is no included installation license for Snow Leopard on the 10 machines?

No, there isn't.

So I'd be looking at $499 for the server OS, and then $129 for each client machine that needs to run Snow Leopard?

The client version of Mac OS X 10.6 is $29 from Apple.

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dantrimble Author

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Dec 20, 2009 12:19 AM in response to Niel

Thanks for clarifying; my question is answered, and I appreciate your input.

On a separate note -- unrelated to my decision making about Snow Leopard Server......

$29? Are you kidding me?

I paid that to take my Leopard-based MBP to Snow Leopard, but I always assumed it was an upgrade price...is that the price for a full license?!

At home, my wife is using an iMac G5 with a PowerPC chip running Tiger (10.3.x), which means it can't run Snow Leopard. It can run Leopard, but Apple is telling me I have to pay $129 to buy Leopard for her machine.

Are you telling me that it's cheaper to buy a full license for Snow Leopard on an Intel machine than it is to buy the now older/previous version (Leopard) for a Mac?!

I know her machine is officially obsolete now that the OS no longer supports non-Intel chips. But to cost almost 4.5 times the current list price to buy the immediately prior version that does run on the PPC?

dt

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