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Mac OS X Server 10.2 Announced

Posted by pudge on from the if-jobs-can-round-up-i-can-too dept.

Aqua_Geek writes "Also announced was Mac OS X Server 10.2. From Apple's PR site: '"Jaguar" Server introduces more than 50 new features, including powerful new NetBoot and NetInstall network management tools, based on Apple's new LDAPv3 Open Directory architecture that simplifies user and computer management for business, education and government customers.'" The price is $500 for 10 clients, and $1000 for unlimited clients.

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  1. Why boot into the GUI then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Simply - you don't have too.

    What is nice about OS X is that someone who knows little can setup the best webserver (apache) and configure the network from a gui interface, then shutdown the gui to save the processor those precise cycles to then have a lean, mean, binary number crunch'n machine.

  2. History of OS X Server? by "Zow" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, maybe someone here who has followed the Mac world more closely than I can shead some light on something I've wondered about. A few years ago, Apple came out with OS X Server that wasn't built from BSD - it used one of the other projects that tried to become "the" OS X (rhapsody?). I recall that when they announced it, it came with the caviot that it would be superceeded by the BSD based OS X, then due out in 6 to 12 months. So what I'm wondering is, was there ever a clear migration path from that system to what is now called OS X Server, or was it really a dead-end that was better to avoid? Just curious.

    -"Zow"