Mac OS X Server 10.6 Evaluation Copy?

[Digeratius]

I was tooling around the Apple support forums for some information on Snow Leopard Server, and saw a sticky thread about free Snow Leopard Server evaluation copies.

http://seminars.apple.com/contactme/SnowLeopardServerEvaluation/

I’ve never seen Apple do this before, even with the Aperture launch and their desire to get the trendsetting photographers to use the product.

Is Apple really going to be sending out free, fully-functioning non-expiring server copies with keycodes to anyone that requests them?

I see two things in the fine print:

[quote]This offer is limited to corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions located in the United States. Resellers do not qualify and are not eligible to participate in this offer. Students do not qualify and are not eligible to participate in this offer. Persons under the age of 13 and all other persons under the age of majority are not eligible and do not qualify for this offer.[/quote]

And…

[quote]In addition, by submitting your request, you represent that the Mac OS X Server evaluation software will not be used in a production capacity and will not be made available for resale.[/quote]

Fill out the form, get a free copy, and you promise not to run your next tech startup’s infrastructure on top of it?

Cool.

[dduff617]

[quote]I’ve never seen Apple do this before[/quote]

they did this for leopard server, also.

i think the license key they provided was one that had a time limit on it, if i remember correctly. what happened when the time limit expires? maybe nothing. or maybe your license code is no longer seen as “valid” – i don’t know.

[Digeratius]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dduff617[/u][p]they did this for leopard server, also.[/p][/QUOTE]Huh, didn’t know that. Our firm is going to take it for a spin and try it out; we’ve been living off of Google Apps for the last few years… but after yesterday’s multihour Gmail outage prevented us from using our preferred Mailplane interface to Google (IMAP and POP continued to work) we’ve been thinking hard about having a local mail server with push functionality to iPhones.

Hopefully iPhone OS 3.1 update or such actually allows push email from Snow Leopard Server, as it apparently does not work *yet.*

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