Apple gives the skinny on Snow Leopard Server

Did 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.