By itself it does not. If you have a bunch of machines, you also have a config system (right?) and they (puppet, chef and so on) have the means to manage cron

By itself it does not. If you have a bunch of machines, you also have a config system (right?) and they (puppet, chef and so on) have the means to manage cron tasks as a class. You still get cron, and the means to manage them across one's servers.