The Current Austrlian Prime Minisiter was born in Wales, in a mining village.
Most Australians can only wonder that a miners daughter from overseas, is now the Australian Leader.

I've overseen the management of ~600 macs running an SOE for the last 9 years.

We use
AD for authentication
OSX servers for the applicaton of the mac equiverlent of Group policy settings
and Radia to deploy software (now called HP openview something arrather)

We have not been happy with Radia since HP bought it a few years ago, so after a review of products last year we are now moving to Casper (the friendly ghost) from JAMF

see http://www.jamfsoftware.com/ for more info, it works fine

As far as I know importing motor cycles into India, is restricted and expensive, you have to buy local !!!!
(based on a mate who wanted to ride his bike across India, and had to prove he still had it when he left)

and every screw looks like a nail

omg, its takien us 7 years to undo this sort simple to setup, difficult to protect system.
Once the auditors found it, it was year after year of explaining that 10% of systems have been moved off the plain text passwords, then 25% then 50%, etc

My advice, only ever do this, if you are not securing anything scure, and you will never have to face an security audit board. ..

the local articles state, that the "medical drill" that was on-site, was to small to drill a hole this big, so something with more "torque" was located.

I can just see the ad's now, You don't need to be a brain surgeon to work our drills, etc, etc

I've seen Telstra put in underground fibre, and its not expensive, think a team of 5 vehicles, 4wd cutting fences, then first d8 dozer doing initial cut with plough, then second dozer, doing another cut and laying the cable, then another dozer driving along behind making it all flat, followed up byt another 4wd putting the fences back together.

And whats more the speed probably 2 to 3 kph.

However, when you consider that many remote cattle and sheep stations can be more than 500 km to the nearest service centre. (The largest station in Australia is 36,000 sqr km or 6,000,000 acres). Its more than just a few days work to get out there.

(Remember many remote stations still fly to town, have a weekly mail run truck that delivers all the day to day needs, teach the kids ont he radia, and fly doctors in for emergencies and live on generator power)

for a number of years, at my previous job, a number of guys went on an Australia day ski on the backside of Mt Kosiosco.

As I remember (it was a few years ago), it took something like 6 hours to hike from the nearest road, for about 20 minutes of downhill summer bliss.

We test, because OS X is not backwardly compatable enough.

We currently have 1 enterprise product that DOES not work on OSX 10.5, but does on 10.4 fine.

10.5 also broke our centralized authentication process. So if you run unmanaged Macs then yep its all fine, but that is not running an enterprise setup, that's just running a heap of Macs.

Its not the same, and it doesn't scale well
We more than halved our support calls times on Macs when we rolled out a centrally managed and supported managed operating environment,
it would have been more, but apples last minute upgrades, and breaking of backward compatability
now require significant more testing.

We support Linux, Win XP, and OS X, and the linux and PC's are the cheapest to support, and have the best backward compatability.

Just go to http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/compat.html, to see what broke and what only kinda broke, (and its not a small list), we were affected by a number of these issues.