[Server Side] SnowLeopard Server

[f41qu3]

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/

"Core innovation.

Mac OS X Server, the world’s easiest-to-use server operating system, combines an intuitively simple interface with a rock-solid UNIX foundation to allow even nontechnical individuals to set up and manage a server. Since it was first released, Mac OS X Server has delivered hundreds of new features and innovations, including Open Directory, iCal Server, Podcast Producer, Wiki Server, NetBoot, NetInstall, and Xgrid. Snow Leopard Server, the next generation of Mac OS X Server, delivers new core software technologies and services designed to better connect your business, unleash the power of modern hardware, and lay the foundation for a new wave of innovations."

:D yeahhh new server equal new thing to I build about. :hack:

[jashsayani]

Oh! So this is SnowLeopard that everyone was expecting at WWDC..... :)

[craigp]

Specifically on the subject of Mac OS X Server - In the two main encounters I've had with it, it has been a headache from start to end. There is no where near the seamlessness found on Apple's client OS, bits were broken and simply not working and generally it didn't live up to the marketing message that it was a server 'for the rest of us'. You still needed quite a high level of technical understanding in the various components to understand where it was going wrong.

The other fundamental problem with OS X Server is that the admin tools required to configure and administer the server are all client-side OS X-only apps. Fine if you're installing OS X Server into a Mac-only environment - but in truth, how many of these types of environments are there? The majority of sys admins are either Windows or Linux users - and really don't like not being able to administer the server on their own platform. OS X Server will not gain traction in heterogeneous networks until Apple make the core part of the server platform - the admin tools - either cross-platform or web-based.

Maybe, with Apple's recent work in the area of SproutCore (the technology behind MobileMe) this could become feasible in Snow Leopard Server?