Re:Real world stories (Score 2, Informative)

We run it in a school with around 1000 wireless connected laptops and a couple of hundred ethernet connected desktops, most of which are macs, but we have around 80-90 Windows clients in there also. We have a single G4 XServe running as an Open Directory Master and AFP File Server, and three other Dual G4's which are Open Directory Replicas as well as SMB File Servers/AFP File Servers/Web Servers (not all in the one box). We run a couple of legacy FreeBSD boxes for email/DNS/DHCP.

It all plays nice together, and is easy to manipulate for basic stuff. And if I want to really go nuts configuring stuff to a far greater degree than I can from the GUI, I have the command line and the GUI.

[shrug]

It just works.