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Great Product for Small to Medium Sized Mac Studios 
- Version: 4.2, 11/11/2006 02:27PM PST
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lizdescamps
I regularly deal with Mac Graphic Studios/Corporate Communications Departments that are an island of Mac users in a sea of PC's, generally sharing Server2000/2003 resources and for this type of client, that can't justify the expense of an XServe for 3-15 mac users, this product is great. I sometimes refer to ExtremeZ-IP as the poor man's XServe but that really doesn't do it justice. If you are in an environment that requires your Mac users to share space on a Win2000/2003 server this product is light years ahead of the SFM protocol in both speed and compatibility and their support department really stays on top of issues.
very good product...if you have very deep pockets... - Version: 4.2.2, 7/3/2006 10:23PM PST
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poolmouse
...extremez-ip is simply too expensive, as others pointed out. before osx server bagan to mature (both software and hardware), extremez-ip was an essential service enhancement. it gives you afp version 3.x that supports all the advanced features of osx (auto reconnect, unicode, long filenames, etc.).
tiger server includes extended attributes and access control lists...two things that kept a lot of large companies from moving over to osx server. and as i recently found out, there's also a failover function so you can point one xserver to another and tell it to failover if the first one fails. that opened the door in a lot of large companies.
sorry group logic...you sell an excellent product, but it's way overpriced. oh, and please stop telling people that "in our test osx server fails miserably"...that's such complete nonesense. ;) stick to what you guys do best - selling an excellent product. don't water down your product with unsubstantiated attacks on apple products...seasoned admins, consultants and enterprize engineers know better.
don
don montalvo, nyc
curmudgeon at large
tiger server includes extended attributes and access control lists...two things that kept a lot of large companies from moving over to osx server. and as i recently found out, there's also a failover function so you can point one xserver to another and tell it to failover if the first one fails. that opened the door in a lot of large companies.
sorry group logic...you sell an excellent product, but it's way overpriced. oh, and please stop telling people that "in our test osx server fails miserably"...that's such complete nonesense. ;) stick to what you guys do best - selling an excellent product. don't water down your product with unsubstantiated attacks on apple products...seasoned admins, consultants and enterprize engineers know better.
don
don montalvo, nyc
curmudgeon at large
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Nice product, but the pricetag is to high - Version: 4.2.2, 6/16/2006 03:37PM PST
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vemund
I used this product for a long time in my last job, and it's nice for sure, but the pricetag is way too high. And if you want some sort of decent support, the TCO-price is absurd. So if you're not rich or have special (MS/Win/ActiveD.-based?) needs, I'll go for a Mac OS X server instead.
The license price itself (for 100 users) can buy you a xserve with nice specs...
You also have to pay for #.X updates, and the upgrade-prices are not nice they either.
Conclusion: Good product, but way too expensive.
The license price itself (for 100 users) can buy you a xserve with nice specs...
You also have to pay for #.X updates, and the upgrade-prices are not nice they either.
Conclusion: Good product, but way too expensive.
Great Product but the price is !@#$% ! 
- Version: 4.0, 10/6/2005 10:05PM PST
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mark.putland
Great features, but the price speaks for its self !
afp 3.1 "autoreconnect" an important feature - Version: 4.0, 5/7/2005 08:30AM PST
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poolmouse
long file names may be a feature but we discourage it since jobs have to be sent to vendors and clients who may not be able to handle the long file names.
the most important feature for a production environment is the support for "autoreconnect" which reestablishes your connection when there's a network anomoly. that's right, osx can "reconnect" but only if the server supports it - which is why afp 3.1 (which you get with extremez-ip) is so important.
don
the most important feature for a production environment is the support for "autoreconnect" which reestablishes your connection when there's a network anomoly. that's right, osx can "reconnect" but only if the server supports it - which is why afp 3.1 (which you get with extremez-ip) is so important.
don
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EZ-IP has a place - Version: 3.2, 7/21/2004 08:32PM PST
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mmartin8
I would not run OSX clients on a Windows server without EZ-IP. In addition to the fast searching and long name support, from a security standpoint I like it better. SFM, at least in my experience with NT and Windows 2000, sends login credantials can only ben sent as plain text. With EZ-IP they can be sent over encrypted. In some environments plain text may be okay, but not in mine.
Not cheap but worth it - Version: 3.2, 7/21/2004 01:49PM PST
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Bryan Schappel
If you have a number of OS X users that need to access Windows servers this solution can't be beat. Microsoft's SFM does not fully support OS X and it NEVER will. EZIP allows for long file and folder names and works correctly with InDesign/InCopy CS lock files. SFM does not.
Since EZIP caches the directory info in RAM (on the server) Finder searches are blazingly fast.
Yes, I feel the price is high. I understand that fully implementing AFP is a tough job. It's hard to justify this product as it easily can cost more than Windows 2003 Server and the Windows server box itself. If you need 100% OS X compatibility, as I do, on Windows this is the best game in town.
Since EZIP caches the directory info in RAM (on the server) Finder searches are blazingly fast.
Yes, I feel the price is high. I understand that fully implementing AFP is a tough job. It's hard to justify this product as it easily can cost more than Windows 2003 Server and the Windows server box itself. If you need 100% OS X compatibility, as I do, on Windows this is the best game in town.
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Speed Claims Still Overrated - Version: 3.2, 7/20/2004 08:28AM PST
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Peregrin Took
There may be situations where this is the best solution, but considering the minimal speed gains over native Win 2000 Server, and that fact that I can buy an entire new Xserve G5 server with 600GB of storage for less than the cost of just ExtremeZ-IP software (the unlimited-client file and print server version of ExtremeZ-IP), not even including the Wintel server hardware or Win Server software, I think the business case for this product is looking less and less justifiable.
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Test before purchasing - Version: 3.1.1, 12/4/2003 08:56AM PST
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Samwise
Make sure you test ExtremeZ IP in your situation before you purchase. Depending on what you have now in terms of a server and network, you may or may not see the claimed performance and stability benefits. We installed ExtremeZ IP on our Win 2000 Server (RAID 5 array, 100baseT, server and all workstations though switch ports) and saw no performance improvements at all. Talking with GroupLogic (just yesterday), they said that the current version of ExtremeZ IP really didn't provide much performance boost with Win 2K Servers; the performance increases were mainly seen with Windows NT Servers.
Your mileage may vary, so do good testing to make sure it gives you the improvements you are looking for before you invest.
Your mileage may vary, so do good testing to make sure it gives you the improvements you are looking for before you invest.
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slboettcher
nothing to do with this software - it runs on the SERVER. We saw awesome speed increases on the Win2K SERVERS we run - a great product for Mac production environments.
