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Apple cancels Xserve RAID

Karim — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:16:02 +0000

Apple has quietly canceled their Xserve RAID and instead recommending the purchase of Promise RAID instead. More information on Promise RAID.

New Forum for Mac OS X Server and Xserve

Karim — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:33:34 +0000

MacRumors has opened up a new forum for issues related to Mac OS X Server and Xserve. Check them out if you’re looking for some help.

Tenon releases iTools 9

Karim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:25:11 +0000

Tenon Intersystems releases a new version of their iTools software. iTools 9 combines the rock-solid reliability of Apache 2 with the ease of use of Macintosh. The new version is available from Tenon for $349.

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Review: Mac OS X 10.5 Server (4 out of 5)

Karim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:17:10 +0000

MacWorld magazine review of Mac OS X 10.5 Server

Most powerful Xserve, up to 8-core

Karim — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:11:32 +0000

Apple announced an all new Xserve on Tuesday. The new Xserve features a 64-bit Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” 5400 series processor at speeds up to 3.0GHz, 3TB of internal storage, 32GB of 800MHz memory, and a fast 1600MHz system bus. Standard Configuration includes:

2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processor
1600MHz frontside bus and 12MB L2 cache
2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully buffered DIMM ECC)
80GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
Built-in graphics with 64MB RAM
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard Unlimited-Client Edition

Are there any high profile sites that run Mac OS X Server?

Karim — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:44:58 +0000

Certainly the most high profile site is Apple.com. They are one of the most visited sites on the net and they are powered by Mac OS X Server.

How long has Mac OS X Server been around?

Karim — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:58:43 +0000

Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released in January, 1999. It was the first operating system that Apple released after their acquisition of NeXT. You can read more on Wikipedia.

What are the different versions of Mac OS X Server and when where they released?

Karim — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:44:19 +0000

As mentioned above the first version was released in January, 1999. Subsequently, the next versions of Mac OS X Server were based on the Mac OS X 10.0 code. The following releases followed:

Mac OS X Server version 10.0 (May 21, 2001)
Mac OS X Server version 10.1 (September 25, 2001)
Mac OS X Server version 10.2 (August 24, 2002)
Mac OS X Server version 10.3 Panther (October 24, 2003)
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 Tiger (April 29, 2005)

Information Week: Inside Apple’s Leopard Server OS

Karim — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:05:54 +0000

There is a great new article detailing the features of Leopard Server in Information Week. Read the article.

Dual-Core Xserve

Karim — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:04:17 +0000

Introducing the all new Xserve from Apple, featuring two 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” microprocessors, eight fully buffered DIMM slots, two PCI Express expansion slots, three hard drive bays with support for SATA or SAS Apple Drive Modules, one optical drive, two USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400 port, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, one DB9 serial port, one 650W power supply with support for dual redundant power supplies, rack mounting rails, integrated lights-out management hardware with Server Monitor software, and an unlimited-client license of Mac OS X Server. (more…)