Why do YOU use Apple's Server product?

So...I've been running 10.5 server for maybe 2 years. The services I use are: AFP SMB DHCP DNS Firewall Mail NAT Web VPN. I went from using linux (slackware no less) to using OS X Server. My issue here is....honestly it feels like OS X Server is a GUI wrapped around a closed source kernel and everything else open source. Paying $500 for something I could pretty much do myself is where I have an issue...and the fact that the admin gui is pretty limited. Even today I still have to manually edit natd to use ppp0 as an interface. I guess if people needed OD and all that jazz maybe it's worth it....so my question to all is the subject...why do YOU use it?

AFP, mail, web - because AFP is the best choice in many instances for fileserving Mac OS X clients,
and also (why OS X Server) because clients do not want to pay me what it actually takes to build it on my own, and I'm not going to do that for free for the "benefit" of not paying for it with my own time.
What's provided is a pretty excellent base set of tools, and I can easily update clamav, amavisd-new and spamassassin manually which I'd be doing anyway on any other platform.
As of 10.5, Postfix is a current enough version to do what I need, and I'm comfortable manually editing the config to get it to do all of what I want.
I just don't have to spend ridiculous amounts of time building all of this,
and with OS X (software and hardware) I get Target-disk mode, a far better GUI when I need it (not much), and the portability of a system drive is actually immeasurably better than I'm going to get with any other platform & OS out there. If you haven't experienced that yet then you don't know.
Yes there are limits to that, but that's negligable compared to how thoroughly un-portable a system drive is anywhere else. To an extreme degree.
NetBoot/NetInstall, asr, ease & portability of system images,
The great benefit (OS X client) of commercial software (Adobe, Office, etc. ) alongside perl, python, ruby, shell scripting, etc.

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