Recently, I had a chance to sit down with a few folks from Apple Computer Inc. who gave me a guided tour of Apple's upcoming server operating system, which is slated for release sometime in the spring of 2007. Mac OS X Server 10.5, or Leopard, will be the seventh release of the server operating system since 2000 and the second version to run natively on Intel processors.
Since the release of the new operating system is not too far around the corner, be sure to purchase server maintenance, which provides 36 months of upgrades for $999. Given the release history, that could tun into three upgrades for the price of one -- a very good deal.