Education software
The only thing is that it seems to be easier for Windows users to set up an easy-to-administer network via the multiple server offerings of Microsoft.
For my old school's Mac network we had to turn to a third-party solution in the form of MacAdministrator to provide file serving via a reasonably-secure login procedure and provision of personal folders and application restrictions, remote shutdown/restart of clients etc.
Now, MacAdministrator (by Hi-Resolution) is no going to OS X any time soon, being stuck in OS 9 land, but they currently support some very large installations in the US. It would make sense for Apple to look into buying Hi-Resolution, or if not, to give them better info on low-level aspects of the OS. I've spent a day with the chief technician of the company and he was very unhappy about the amount that Apple would give away to them as the pre-OS X updates rolled out of the door. Obviously this shouldn't be such a problem with the new open source elements of of OS X, but Apple really needs to give a lot of support to companies like Hi-Resolution if they hope to capture the educational market again.
Schools need a simple product to arbitrate between a server that provides the aforementioned features and also supports machines running OS X as well as those numerous early iMacs running OS 9 dotted throughout education establishments.
If they get this right, they could have the whole thing sewn up.
