Ben's Talk3G Blog

It's officially time for the Macs at work to go Snow Leopard.

With the exception of one refusenik who's still clinging on to Tiger (which is a fantastic OS, but I am doing everything in my power to ensure this situation does not persist for much longer...) the office is a Leopard paradise. Credit where credit's due, Leopard has been really great for us - smoothing out some of Tiger's rough-around-the-edges bits and providing very reliable client-server networking.

Now that Snow Leopard 10.6.2 is out, I'm comfortable that enough bugs will have been discovered in the server version (it always takes longer for the lesser-used stuff to get a good testing, especially when most businesses don't jump right on these sorts of upgrades). Hopefully the upgrade process on the server side will be simpler than it was from Tiger -> Leopard, where quite a lot changed and much of Open Directory was broken. With a miracle, it'll be as easy as upgrading regular client Leopard, which is barely more than a regular update.

One thing I am pleased about this time around is Apple's pricing for 10.6 Server Unlimited Client Licence - it's the price of the old 10 client copy. Shockingly, the 10 client copy does actually include some usage restrictions. This could be a one-time affair due to 10.6 being a 'maintenance' release, but hopefully this new pricing structure is here to stay.

Everyone should be pretty happy with the update, though I suppose most people wont notice the difference!