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June 10, 2008

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Apple gives the skinny on Snow Leopard Server

Posted Jun. 10, ’08, 1:31 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Software

snowleopardServer.jpgDid you know Snow Leopards can’t actually roar? That’s right. No larynx, you see.

I alluded to that in the title of another post, but I still think it’s a rather appropriate characteristic for the cat representing the next major version of Mac OS X.

We wrote about the client version of Snow Leopard, a build that will focus mainly on improvements to features already in place—as well as some nifty under-the-hood additions that will greatly improve OS X’s performance. And now we’ve got some details about Snow Leopard Server which, unlike its client counterpart, will throw in a few new end-user features as well.

AppleInsider provides a run-down (mostly reprinted from Apple’s Snow Leopard Server sneak-peak) of Server’s features, which include iCal Server 2 (push notifications, web-based calendar browsing, etc.), Podcast Producer 2 (a new workflow editor, dual-video capture, a new Podcast Library, etc.), enhanced wiki and blog creation and management, Address Book Server (CardDAV-based contacts management and sharing), and improved Mail Server and ZFS support. It will also include the main enhancements that are featured in Snow Leopard client—Multicore improvements, OpenCL, etc.

Check the Snow Leopard Server page for a more detailed look at Snow Leopard Server, and judge for yourself whether the lack of a larynx is really all that bad, or if this is the kind of cat we really do need to cuddle with at this stage of the game.

I choose the latter.

Meow.


1 Comments

R said:

That picture is FUNNY!

Does that imply Snow Leopard will leave a sour taste in your mouth?

(I am all over ZFS and Exchange support... so no sour grapes here.)

June 11, 2008 11:12 AM

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