That's it, Leopard!

Ok, Apple. After 3 painful weeks with Leopard Server I reverted my server back to 10.3.9.
I admit it doesn't look as cool as Leopard and I lost some important data during this transition. More important: I wasted money and a lot of invaluable time solving problems I did not have before Leopard. And all I wanted was a group calender and a Wikipedia server... Those worked but in slow motion at best.
Now, looking at my server after the transition 10.3.9 is running fast like ****, is stable, and I understand what's going on on my machine. Before, Leopard used 100% of the CPU all the time and it took minutes to log in for my users.
Please, Apple: Lock you software developers in a small room, supply them with pizza, Coke, and some fresh air once in a while for the next 3 months and most important: let them have a look at previous versions of Mac OS X server. Tell them to beat stability and performance of 10.3.9!
Stability and performance is what my users demand. Not fancy looks and features that won't work.
Regards
Frank

I don't know if this thread is going to be locked or not. But Apple should at least listen to admins if things go terribly wrong. To me, 10.5 server is an alpha release. At best. The client version is more like in its beta stage. Very annoying: It completely lacks browsing support for appletalk shares from windows machines while at the same time printers are seen .
Apple, I wish my users and I would not have to depend on appletalk browsing being functional but we are and will be.
It's not about buying shiny new hardware alone. We need to integrate what we have.
This always worked with Apple systems and made them superior to the crap others were selling. Therefore, advise the new kids on your teams how to make admins and users happy.
Looks to me that this goal is no longer top priority for the design kid generation at Apple right now .
In case Apple did not tell you, this is for the kids at Apple: No! iApp functionality alone is NOT sufficient if you want to work with a computer.

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