[George W. Bush]

Windows 2003 Server from Dell OEM with only 25 CAL costs you $3,295 ($3,999 retail). OS X Server with unlimited CAL costs just $999 full retail. So buy a few XServes to run your organization and a lot of worries go out the window, and at a quarter of the price.

I agree generally. But Windows 2003 Server was the finest Windows they ever made. Nuts to those people who think it's only for servers. It is, after all, the source code for Vista (but minus draconian DRM, evil license terms, mediocrity, Tiger copycatting, vast hardware requirements, etc.).

Tiger Server, though fine for many tasks and performing some rather unique functions, does not stand up to Windows 2003 Server in many enterprise tasks and, like Windows Server, fails to meet the Linux offering for most servers on the Internet.

They all have their places though. I'm less mean-spirited on server OSes than I am on consumer/workstation OSes. Probably some deep ugly populist streak in me.

[antiRepublicrat]

Tiger Server, though fine for many tasks and performing some rather unique functions, does not stand up to Windows 2003 Server in many enterprise tasks

Are you talking about general tasks, or specific software it doesn't run, like Exchange? And since it's BSD, what does Linux do that it can't?