Apple reveals Mac OS X Lion, Server prices for business and education
Apple has announced prices and deployment plans for its education and business customers installing Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, with licenses starting at $29.99 in volume.
The company has published a PDF document that reiterates that consumers will install Lion via the Mac App Store as a $29.99 download that may be installed on any Mac connected to the iTunes account used to download it.
For business customers, Apple’s online Business Store will offer volume licenses at the same $29.99 price in a minimum quantity of 20 licenses. The company will also offer maintenance contracts for $49.99 per license at the same minimum quantity.
When Apple debuted the App Store, many IT folk starting moaning about having to use the App store for installing the new version of OS X. How will this work in a volume license situation? Well, as I thought, Apple will not leave it’s business and education users stranded. A screen shot from the PDF mentioned in this article: