How does an organization upgrade to Mountain Lion? Is it possible to create a generic Apple ID and purchase multiple copies from the Mac App Store? Are there any other available methods? Once one Mac is upgraded, can a DVD be created and used to upgrade the rest? How many license are needed? Individual upgrades seem to be good for 5 installs, however I suspect that does not hold true for organizations.
MacOS – Mountain Lion upgrade for organizations
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Best Answer
The general advice is that Apple has sales channels (within the retail stores as well as without) to assist organizations understand the various programs and licensing terms. Additionally, organizations typically get tools to assist with license management, support and deployment.
If you don't have a sales contact yet, you could start with this somewhat dated, but very nice white paper on the issues for deploying OS X in a large scale setting:
http://www.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-SolutionsSystemMgmt.pdf
There are more up-to-date presentations for the App Store, but I haven't seen them published on the web.